The patch titled Subject: perf/core: fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is perf-core-fix-max_order-usage-in-rb_alloc_aux_page.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/perf-core-fix-max_order-usage-in-rb_alloc_aux_page.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: perf/core: fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page() Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:31:29 +0300 MAX_ORDER is not inclusive: the maximum allocation order buddy allocator can deliver is MAX_ORDER-1. Fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-7-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c~perf-core-fix-max_order-usage-in-rb_alloc_aux_page +++ a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ static struct page *rb_alloc_aux_page(in { struct page *page; - if (order > MAX_ORDER) - order = MAX_ORDER; + if (order >= MAX_ORDER) + order = MAX_ORDER - 1; do { page = alloc_pages_node(node, PERF_AUX_GFP, order); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are sparc-mm-fix-max_order-usage-in-tsb_grow.patch um-fix-max_order-usage-in-linux_main.patch floppy-fix-max_order-usage.patch drm-i915-fix-max_order-usage-in-i915_gem_object_get_pages_internal.patch genwqe-fix-max_order-usage.patch perf-core-fix-max_order-usage-in-rb_alloc_aux_page.patch mm-page_reporting-fix-max_order-usage-in-page_reporting_register.patch mm-slub-fix-max_order-usage-in-calculate_order.patch iommu-fix-max_order-usage-in-__iommu_dma_alloc_pages.patch mm-treewide-redefine-max_order-sanely.patch