Re: EBPF-triggered WARNING at mm/percpu.c:1361 in v4-14-rc2

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 10:53:11 EST


Hello,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:45:38PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Perhaps the pr_warn() should be ratelimited; or could there be an
> > option where we only return NULL, not triggering a warn at all (which
> > would likely be what callers might do anyway when checking against
> > PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE and then bailing out)?
>
> Those both make sense to me; checking __GFP_NOWARN should be easy
> enough.

That also makes sense.

> Just to check, do you think that dev_map_alloc() should explicitly test
> the size against PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE, prior to calling pcpu_alloc()?

But let's please not do this.

Thanks.

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tejun