The patch titled Subject: drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant copy_params uses kmalloc with vmalloc fallback. We already have a helper for that - kvmalloc. This caller requires GFP_NOIO semantic so it hasn't been converted with many others by previous patches. All we need to achieve this semantic is to use the scope memalloc_noio_{save,restore} around kvmalloc. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-4-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c~md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c~md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant +++ a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -1699,6 +1699,7 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl _ struct dm_ioctl *dmi; int secure_data; const size_t minimum_data_size = offsetof(struct dm_ioctl, data); + unsigned noio_flag; if (copy_from_user(param_kernel, user, minimum_data_size)) return -EFAULT; @@ -1721,15 +1722,9 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl _ * Use kmalloc() rather than vmalloc() when we can. */ dmi = NULL; - if (param_kernel->data_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) - dmi = kmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN); - - if (!dmi) { - unsigned noio_flag; - noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save(); - dmi = __vmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL); - memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag); - } + noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save(); + dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL); + memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag); if (!dmi) { if (secure_data && clear_user(user, param_kernel->data_size)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are lockdep-allow-to-disable-reclaim-lockup-detection.patch xfs-abstract-pf_fstrans-to-pf_memalloc_nofs.patch mm-introduce-memalloc_nofs_saverestore-api.patch xfs-use-memalloc_nofs_saverestore-instead-of-memalloc_noio.patch jbd2-mark-the-transaction-context-with-the-scope-gfp_nofs-context.patch jbd2-make-the-whole-kjournald2-kthread-nofs-safe.patch mm-introduce-kvalloc-helpers.patch mm-support-__gfp_repeat-in-kvmalloc_node-for-32kb.patch rhashtable-simplify-a-strange-allocation-pattern.patch ila-simplify-a-strange-allocation-pattern.patch xattr-zero-out-memory-copied-to-userspace-in-getxattr.patch treewide-use-kvalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variants.patch net-use-kvmalloc-with-__gfp_repeat-rather-than-open-coded-variant.patch md-use-kvmalloc-rather-than-opencoded-variant.patch bcache-use-kvmalloc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html