This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern to the 5.16-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: block-map-add-__gfp_zero-flag-for-alloc_page-in-func.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d7441483acc310b24c7b1d0b4e714f9f381c7121 Author: Haimin Zhang <tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 16 16:40:38 2022 +0800 block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern [ Upstream commit cc8f7fe1f5eab010191aa4570f27641876fa1267 ] Add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern to initialize the buffer of a bio. Signed-off-by: Haimin Zhang <tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216084038.15635-1-tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c index 4526adde01564..c7f71d83eff18 100644 --- a/block/blk-map.c +++ b/block/blk-map.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static struct bio *bio_copy_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data, if (bytes > len) bytes = len; - page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | gfp_mask); + page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_mask); if (!page) goto cleanup;