The FQ implementation used by mac80211 allocates memory using kmalloc(),
which can fail; and Johannes reported that this actually happens in
practice.
To avoid this, switch the allocation to kvmalloc() instead; this also
brings fq_impl in line with all the FQ qdiscs.
Fixes: 557fc4a09803 ("fq: add fair queuing framework")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Also change kfree()->kvfree()
include/net/fq_impl.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/fq_impl.h b/include/net/fq_impl.h
index 107c0d700ed6..38a9a3d1222b 100644
--- a/include/net/fq_impl.h
+++ b/include/net/fq_impl.h
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int fq_init(struct fq *fq, int flows_cnt)
fq->limit = 8192;
fq->memory_limit = 16 << 20; /* 16 MBytes */
- fq->flows = kcalloc(fq->flows_cnt, sizeof(fq->flows[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fq->flows = kvcalloc(fq->flows_cnt, sizeof(fq->flows[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fq->flows)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static void fq_reset(struct fq *fq,
for (i = 0; i < fq->flows_cnt; i++)
fq_flow_reset(fq, &fq->flows[i], free_func);
- kfree(fq->flows);
+ kvfree(fq->flows);
fq->flows = NULL;
}
--
2.23.0
