This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently to the 6.5-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: module-decompress-use-kvmalloc-consistently.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2d83945cffbd20257b4a682469486821bf6276cc Author: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 2 09:19:14 2023 +0100 module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently [ Upstream commit 17fc8084aa8f9d5235f252fc3978db657dd77e92 ] We consistently switched from kmalloc() to vmalloc() in module decompression to prevent potential memory allocation failures with large modules, however vmalloc() is not as memory-efficient and fast as kmalloc(). Since we don't know in general the size of the workspace required by the decompression algorithm, it is more reasonable to use kvmalloc() consistently, also considering that we don't have special memory requirements here. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/module/decompress.c b/kernel/module/decompress.c index 4156d59be4408..474e68f0f0634 100644 --- a/kernel/module/decompress.c +++ b/kernel/module/decompress.c @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info, s.next_in = buf + gzip_hdr_len; s.avail_in = size - gzip_hdr_len; - s.workspace = vmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize()); + s.workspace = kvmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize(), GFP_KERNEL); if (!s.workspace) return -ENOMEM; @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info, out_inflate_end: zlib_inflateEnd(&s); out: - vfree(s.workspace); + kvfree(s.workspace); return retval; } #elif defined(CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ) @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static ssize_t module_zstd_decompress(struct load_info *info, } wksp_size = zstd_dstream_workspace_bound(header.windowSize); - wksp = vmalloc(wksp_size); + wksp = kvmalloc(wksp_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!wksp) { retval = -ENOMEM; goto out; @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static ssize_t module_zstd_decompress(struct load_info *info, retval = new_size; out: - vfree(wksp); + kvfree(wksp); return retval; } #else