This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Fix failing fw tracer allocation on s390 to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5-fix-failing-fw-tracer-allocation-on-s390.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bbb2cd2e1f181a1c844438164704167a36d028af Author: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 9 09:46:20 2020 +0200 net/mlx5: Fix failing fw tracer allocation on s390 commit a019b36123aec9700b21ae0724710f62928a8bc1 upstream. On s390 FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER is 9 instead of 11, thus a larger kzalloc() allocation as done for the firmware tracer will always fail. Looking at mlx5_fw_tracer_save_trace(), it is actually the driver itself that copies the debug data into the trace array and there is no need for the allocation to be contiguous in physical memory. We can therefor use kvzalloc() instead of kzalloc() and get rid of the large contiguous allcoation. Fixes: f53aaa31cce7 ("net/mlx5: FW tracer, implement tracer logic") Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c index 94d7b69a95c74..eb2e57ff08a60 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ struct mlx5_fw_tracer *mlx5_fw_tracer_create(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev) return NULL; } - tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); + tracer = kvzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tracer) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ destroy_workqueue: tracer->dev = NULL; destroy_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); free_tracer: - kfree(tracer); + kvfree(tracer); return ERR_PTR(err); } @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ void mlx5_fw_tracer_destroy(struct mlx5_fw_tracer *tracer) mlx5_fw_tracer_destroy_log_buf(tracer); flush_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); destroy_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); - kfree(tracer); + kvfree(tracer); } static int fw_tracer_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action, void *data)