This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/hypfs: Use get_free_page() instead of kmalloc to ensure page alignment to the 4.4-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: s390-hypfs-use-get_free_page-instead-of-kmalloc-to-ensure-page-alignment.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 237d6e6884136923b6bd26d5141ebe1d065960c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:24:28 +0200 Subject: s390/hypfs: Use get_free_page() instead of kmalloc to ensure page alignment From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 237d6e6884136923b6bd26d5141ebe1d065960c9 upstream. Since commit d86bd1bece6f ("mm/slub: support left redzone") it is no longer guaranteed that kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) returns page aligned memory. After the above commit we get an error for diag224 because aligned memory is required. This leads to the following user visible error: # mount none -t s390_hypfs /sys/hypervisor/ mount: unknown filesystem type 's390_hypfs' # dmesg | grep hypfs hypfs.cccfb8: The hardware system does not provide all functions required by hypfs hypfs.7a79f0: Initialization of hypfs failed with rc=-61 Fix this problem and use get_free_page() instead of kmalloc() to get correctly aligned memory. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag.c +++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag.c @@ -525,11 +525,11 @@ static int diag224(void *ptr) static int diag224_get_name_table(void) { /* memory must be below 2GB */ - diag224_cpu_names = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); + diag224_cpu_names = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); if (!diag224_cpu_names) return -ENOMEM; if (diag224(diag224_cpu_names)) { - kfree(diag224_cpu_names); + free_page((unsigned long) diag224_cpu_names); return -EOPNOTSUPP; } EBCASC(diag224_cpu_names + 16, (*diag224_cpu_names + 1) * 16); @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ static int diag224_get_name_table(void) static void diag224_delete_name_table(void) { - kfree(diag224_cpu_names); + free_page((unsigned long) diag224_cpu_names); } static int diag224_idx2name(int index, char *name) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/s390-hypfs-use-get_free_page-instead-of-kmalloc-to-ensure-page-alignment.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html