[PATCH] x86: fix small LDT allocation for Xen

[Jan Beulich]

While commit 37868fe113 ("x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous") added
a nice comment explaining that Xen needs page-aligned whole page chunks
for guest descriptor tables, it then nevertheless used kzalloc() on the
small size path. As I'm unaware of guarantees for kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, )
to return page-aligned memory blocks, I believe this needs to be
switched back to __get_free_page().

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 4.2/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ 4.2-x86-LDT-alloc/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_stru
 	if (alloc_size > PAGE_SIZE)
 		new_ldt->entries = vzalloc(alloc_size);
 	else
-		new_ldt->entries = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+		new_ldt->entries = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
 
 	if (!new_ldt->entries) {
 		kfree(new_ldt);



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