Patch "fs/ntfs3: Use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc(... __GFP_NOWARN)" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    fs/ntfs3: Use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc(... __GFP_NOWARN)

to the 6.1-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:
     fs-ntfs3-use-kvmalloc-instead-of-kmalloc-.-__gfp_now.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit e707ee9da0f79c05aa0b925ce0b5216f4d78f252
Author: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jun 30 16:12:58 2023 +0400

    fs/ntfs3: Use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc(... __GFP_NOWARN)
    
    [ Upstream commit fc471e39e38fea6677017cbdd6d928088a59fc67 ]
    
    Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/attrlist.c b/fs/ntfs3/attrlist.c
index 81c22df27c725..0c6a68e71e7d4 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/attrlist.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/attrlist.c
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ int ntfs_load_attr_list(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct ATTRIB *attr)
 
 	if (!attr->non_res) {
 		lsize = le32_to_cpu(attr->res.data_size);
-		le = kmalloc(al_aligned(lsize), GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		/* attr is resident: lsize < record_size (1K or 4K) */
+		le = kvmalloc(al_aligned(lsize), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!le) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
@@ -80,7 +81,17 @@ int ntfs_load_attr_list(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct ATTRIB *attr)
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto out;
 
-		le = kmalloc(al_aligned(lsize), GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		/* attr is nonresident.
+		 * The worst case:
+		 * 1T (2^40) extremely fragmented file.
+		 * cluster = 4K (2^12) => 2^28 fragments
+		 * 2^9 fragments per one record => 2^19 records
+		 * 2^5 bytes of ATTR_LIST_ENTRY per one record => 2^24 bytes.
+		 *
+		 * the result is 16M bytes per attribute list.
+		 * Use kvmalloc to allocate in range [several Kbytes - dozen Mbytes]
+		 */
+		le = kvmalloc(al_aligned(lsize), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!le) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/bitmap.c b/fs/ntfs3/bitmap.c
index e0cdc91d88a85..c055bbdfe0f7c 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/bitmap.c
@@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ int wnd_init(struct wnd_bitmap *wnd, struct super_block *sb, size_t nbits)
 		wnd->bits_last = wbits;
 
 	wnd->free_bits =
-		kcalloc(wnd->nwnd, sizeof(u16), GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		kvmalloc_array(wnd->nwnd, sizeof(u16), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+
 	if (!wnd->free_bits)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/super.c b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
index 8e2fe0f69203b..6066eea3f61cb 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 		goto put_inode_out;
 	}
 	bytes = inode->i_size;
-	sbi->def_table = t = kmalloc(bytes, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOWARN);
+	sbi->def_table = t = kvmalloc(bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!t) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto put_inode_out;