Re: Fwd: vmalloc error: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper [btrfs] in kernel 6.3.x

[Uladzislau Rezki]

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 08:52:21AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 09:04:05PM +0200, Forza wrote:
> > I have a similar experience with kernel 6.3 where vmalloc fails in a similar way. I was able to reproduce it in a QEMU VM as well as on my system. 
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/d11418b6-38e5-eb78-1537-c39245dc0b78@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> 
> Thanks for your similar report. Telling regzbot about it:
> 
> #regzbot link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d11418b6-38e5-eb78-1537-c39245dc0b78@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
It is good that you can reproduce it. Could you please test below patch?

<snip>
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 31ff782d368b..7a06452f7807 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2957,14 +2957,18 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
                        page = alloc_pages(alloc_gfp, order);
                else
                        page = alloc_pages_node(nid, alloc_gfp, order);
+
                if (unlikely(!page)) {
-                       if (!nofail)
-                               break;
+                       if (nofail)
+                               alloc_gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;

-                       /* fall back to the zero order allocations */
-                       alloc_gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
-                       order = 0;
-                       continue;
+                       /* Fall back to the zero order allocations. */
+                       if (order || nofail) {
+                               order = 0;
+                               continue;
+                       }
+
+                       break;
                }

                /*
<snip>

Thanks!

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Uladzislau Rezki