This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: evdev - fall back to vmalloc for client event buffer
to the 3.12-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:
input-evdev-fall-back-to-vmalloc-for-client-event-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 92eb77d0ffbaa71b501a0a8dabf09a351bf4267f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:25:34 -0700
Subject: Input: evdev - fall back to vmalloc for client event buffer
From: Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 92eb77d0ffbaa71b501a0a8dabf09a351bf4267f upstream.
evdev always tries to allocate the event buffer for clients using
kzalloc rather than vmalloc, presumably to avoid mapping overhead where
possible. However, drivers like bcm5974, which claims support for
reporting 16 fingers simultaneously, can have an extraordinarily large
buffer. The resultant contiguous order-4 allocation attempt fails due
to fragmentation, and the device is thus unusable until reboot.
Try kzalloc if we can to avoid the mapping overhead, but if that fails,
fall back to vzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/evdev.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/input/mt.h>
@@ -369,7 +371,11 @@ static int evdev_release(struct inode *i
mutex_unlock(&evdev->mutex);
evdev_detach_client(evdev, client);
- kfree(client);
+
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(client))
+ vfree(client);
+ else
+ kfree(client);
evdev_close_device(evdev);
@@ -389,12 +395,14 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inod
{
struct evdev *evdev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct evdev, cdev);
unsigned int bufsize = evdev_compute_buffer_size(evdev->handle.dev);
+ unsigned int size = sizeof(struct evdev_client) +
+ bufsize * sizeof(struct input_event);
struct evdev_client *client;
int error;
- client = kzalloc(sizeof(struct evdev_client) +
- bufsize * sizeof(struct input_event),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ client = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ if (!client)
+ client = vzalloc(size);
if (!client)
return -ENOMEM;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/input-evdev-fall-back-to-vmalloc-for-client-event-buffer.patch
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