From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/pipe: use kvcalloc to allocate a pipe_buffer array Right now, kcalloc is used to allocate a pipe_buffer array. The size of the pipe_buffer struct is 40 bytes. kcalloc allows allocating reliably chunks with sizes less or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER (3). It means that the maximum pipe size is 3.2MB in this case. In CRIU, we use pipes to dump processes memory. CRIU freezes a target process, injects a parasite code into it and then this code splices memory into pipes. If a maximum pipe size is small, we need to do many iterations or create many pipes. kvcalloc attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation and so it isn't limited by PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. The maximum pipe size for non-root users is limited by the /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size sysctl that is 1MB by default, so only the root user will be able to trigger vmalloc allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220104171058.22580-1-avagin@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pipe.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/pipe.c~fs-pipe-use-kvcalloc-to-allocate-a-pipe_buffer-array +++ a/fs/pipe.c @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info( if (too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user_bufs) && pipe_is_unprivileged_user()) goto out_revert_acct; - pipe->bufs = kcalloc(pipe_bufs, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), + pipe->bufs = kvcalloc(pipe_bufs, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (pipe->bufs) { @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct pipe_inode_in #endif if (pipe->tmp_page) __free_page(pipe->tmp_page); - kfree(pipe->bufs); + kvfree(pipe->bufs); kfree(pipe); } @@ -1264,8 +1264,7 @@ int pipe_resize_ring(struct pipe_inode_i if (nr_slots < n) return -EBUSY; - bufs = kcalloc(nr_slots, sizeof(*bufs), - GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOWARN); + bufs = kvcalloc(nr_slots, sizeof(*bufs), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (unlikely(!bufs)) return -ENOMEM; @@ -1292,7 +1291,7 @@ int pipe_resize_ring(struct pipe_inode_i head = n; tail = 0; - kfree(pipe->bufs); + kvfree(pipe->bufs); pipe->bufs = bufs; pipe->ring_size = nr_slots; if (pipe->max_usage > nr_slots) _
