This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: usx2y: Suppress kernel warning at page allocation failures
to the 3.18-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:
alsa-usx2y-suppress-kernel-warning-at-page-allocation-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7682e399485fe19622b6fd82510b1f4551e48a25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:06:43 +0200
Subject: ALSA: usx2y: Suppress kernel warning at page allocation failures
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
commit 7682e399485fe19622b6fd82510b1f4551e48a25 upstream.
The usx2y driver allocates the stream read/write buffers in continuous
pages depending on the stream setup, and this may spew the kernel
warning messages with a stack trace like:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1846 at mm/page_alloc.c:3883
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1ef2/0x2d70
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1846 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted
....
It may confuse user as if it were any serious error, although this is
no fatal error and the driver handles the error case gracefully.
Since the driver has already some sanity check of the given size (128
and 256 pages), it can't pass any crazy value. So it's merely page
fragmentation.
This patch adds __GFP_NOWARN to each caller for suppressing such
kernel warnings. The original issue was spotted by syzkaller.
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/usx2y/usb_stream.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/sound/usb/usx2y/usb_stream.c
+++ b/sound/usb/usx2y/usb_stream.c
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ struct usb_stream *usb_stream_new(struct
}
pg = get_order(read_size);
- sk->s = (void *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO, pg);
+ sk->s = (void *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO|
+ __GFP_NOWARN, pg);
if (!sk->s) {
snd_printk(KERN_WARNING "couldn't __get_free_pages()\n");
goto out;
@@ -211,7 +212,8 @@ struct usb_stream *usb_stream_new(struct
pg = get_order(write_size);
sk->write_page =
- (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO, pg);
+ (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO|
+ __GFP_NOWARN, pg);
if (!sk->write_page) {
snd_printk(KERN_WARNING "couldn't __get_free_pages()\n");
usb_stream_free(sk);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/alsa-usx2y-suppress-kernel-warning-at-page-allocation-failures.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-usb-audio-check-out-of-bounds-access-by-corrupted-buffer-descriptor.patch