The quilt patch titled
Subject: relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
relay-use-kvcalloc-to-alloc-page-array-in-relay_alloc_page_array.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: wuchi <wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 18:10:25 +0800
kvcalloc() is safer because it will check the integer overflows, and using
it will simple the logic of allocation size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909101025.82955-1-wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: wuchi <wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/relay.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/relay.c~relay-use-kvcalloc-to-alloc-page-array-in-relay_alloc_page_array
+++ a/kernel/relay.c
@@ -60,10 +60,7 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct
*/
static struct page **relay_alloc_page_array(unsigned int n_pages)
{
- const size_t pa_size = n_pages * sizeof(struct page *);
- if (pa_size > PAGE_SIZE)
- return vzalloc(pa_size);
- return kzalloc(pa_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ return kvcalloc(n_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
}
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx are
lib-debugobjects-fix-stat-count-and-optimize-debug_objects_mem_init.patch
