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 4.8-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-4.8 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
@@ -363,11 +363,11 @@ out:
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);
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ 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-4.8/s390-hypfs-use-get_free_page-instead-of-kmalloc-to-ensure-page-alignment.patch
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