This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring: mem-account pbuf buckets to the 5.18-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: io_uring-mem-account-pbuf-buckets.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cc18cc5e82033d406f54144ad6f8092206004684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 15:13:46 +0100 Subject: io_uring: mem-account pbuf buckets From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> commit cc18cc5e82033d406f54144ad6f8092206004684 upstream. Potentially, someone may create as many pbuf bucket as there are indexes in an xarray without any other restrictions bounding our memory usage, put memory needed for the buckets under memory accounting. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d34c452e45793e978d26e2606211ec9070d329ea.1659622312.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- io_uring/io_uring.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/io_uring/io_uring.c +++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c @@ -4927,7 +4927,7 @@ static int io_provide_buffers(struct io_ bl = io_buffer_get_list(ctx, p->bgid); if (unlikely(!bl)) { - bl = kmalloc(sizeof(*bl), GFP_KERNEL); + bl = kzalloc(sizeof(*bl), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (!bl) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.18/skbuff-don-t-mix-ubuf_info-from-different-sources.patch queue-5.18/io_uring-mem-account-pbuf-buckets.patch