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xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers

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Pankaj Raghav reported that when filesystem block size is larger
than page size, the xattr code can use kmalloc() for high order
allocations. This triggers a useless warning in the allocator as it
is a __GFP_NOFAIL allocation here:

static inline
struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
                        struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
                        gfp_t gfp_flags, unsigned int alloc_flags,
                        int migratetype)
{
        struct page *page;

        /*
         * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
         * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
         */
>>>>    WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
...

Fix this by changing all these call sites to use kvmalloc(), which
will strip the NOFAIL from the kmalloc attempt and if that fails
will do a __GFP_NOFAIL vmalloc().

This is not an issue that productions systems will see as
filesystems with block size > page size cannot be mounted by the
kernel; Pankaj is developing this functionality right now.

Reported-by: Pankaj Raghav <kernel@pankajraghav.com>
Fixes: f078d4ea82 ("xfs: convert kmem_alloc() to kmalloc()")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240822135018.1931258-8-kernel@pankajraghav.com
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Dave Chinner 2024-08-22 15:50:15 +02:00 • committed by Christian Brauner
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