[PATCH] dma: iovlock: avoid dma_pin_iovec_pages() causing page allocator warns on order >= MAX_ORDER

From: Rafael Aquini
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 14:22:57 EST


dma_pin_iovec_pages() eventually causes the page allocator to stumble across
it warning case when a request for contigous mem block gets order >= MAX_ORDER.

trinity(11230): Randomness reseeded to 0xaf76756f
trinity: trinity(11230) Randomness reseeded to 0xaf76756f
[ 7442.617160] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 7442.621890] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2410 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x346/0xa00()
...
[ 7442.797088] Call Trace:
[ 7442.799614] [<ffffffff81600bf7>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 7442.804860] [<ffffffff8105f621>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
[ 7442.810944] [<ffffffff8105f6fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 7442.816858] [<ffffffff8113d016>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x346/0xa00
[ 7442.823294] [<ffffffff81175f59>] alloc_pages_current+0xa9/0x170
[ 7442.829364] [<ffffffff811384be>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
[ 7442.835009] [<ffffffff8118064e>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2e/0xa0
[ 7442.841005] [<ffffffff81182899>] __kmalloc+0x219/0x230
[ 7442.846284] [<ffffffff81387c8b>] dma_pin_iovec_pages+0x9b/0x240
[ 7442.852323] [<ffffffff8153ffb8>] tcp_recvmsg+0x888/0xd10
...

dma_pin_iovec_pages() is actually being used for an unique callsite within
tcp_recvmsg() which falls back to skb_copy_datagram_iovec() if the first
routine fails to pin a DMA buffer for the iovec. The splatted calltrace is
more scary than other thing, so lets just prevent it from getting out to
the wild world. This patch also does a minor code style surgery on the
surrounding hunk.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/iovlock.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
index bb48a57..4cb8379 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ struct dma_pinned_list *dma_pin_iovec_pages(struct iovec *iov, size_t len)
} while (iovec_len_used < len);

/* single kmalloc for pinned list, page_list[], and the page arrays */
- local_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*local_list)
- + (nr_iovecs * sizeof (struct dma_page_list))
- + (iovec_pages_used * sizeof (struct page*)), GFP_KERNEL);
+ local_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*local_list) +
+ (nr_iovecs * sizeof(struct dma_page_list)) +
+ (iovec_pages_used * sizeof(struct page *)),
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!local_list)
goto out;

--
1.9.3

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