Re: [PATCH v8 07/10] xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers

From: Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2024 - 14:08:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:44:17AM +0000, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: f078d4ea8276 ("xfs: convert kmem_alloc() to kmalloc()")
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>

@Chandan: As we discussed today, do you want to pick this up for 6.11?
Then I can drop it from my patch series.

> ---
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 15 ++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
> index b9e98950eb3d..09f4cb061a6e 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
> @@ -1138,10 +1138,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_to_shortform(
>
> trace_xfs_attr_leaf_to_sf(args);
>
> - tmpbuffer = kmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> - if (!tmpbuffer)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> + tmpbuffer = kvmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> memcpy(tmpbuffer, bp->b_addr, args->geo->blksize);
>
> leaf = (xfs_attr_leafblock_t *)tmpbuffer;
> @@ -1205,7 +1202,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_to_shortform(
> error = 0;
>
> out:
> - kfree(tmpbuffer);
> + kvfree(tmpbuffer);
> return error;
> }
>
> @@ -1613,7 +1610,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_compact(
>
> trace_xfs_attr_leaf_compact(args);
>
> - tmpbuffer = kmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> + tmpbuffer = kvmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> memcpy(tmpbuffer, bp->b_addr, args->geo->blksize);
> memset(bp->b_addr, 0, args->geo->blksize);
> leaf_src = (xfs_attr_leafblock_t *)tmpbuffer;
> @@ -1651,7 +1648,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_compact(
> */
> xfs_trans_log_buf(trans, bp, 0, args->geo->blksize - 1);
>
> - kfree(tmpbuffer);
> + kvfree(tmpbuffer);
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -2330,7 +2327,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_unbalance(
> struct xfs_attr_leafblock *tmp_leaf;
> struct xfs_attr3_icleaf_hdr tmphdr;
>
> - tmp_leaf = kzalloc(state->args->geo->blksize,
> + tmp_leaf = kvzalloc(state->args->geo->blksize,
> GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>
> /*
> @@ -2371,7 +2368,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_unbalance(
> }
> memcpy(save_leaf, tmp_leaf, state->args->geo->blksize);
> savehdr = tmphdr; /* struct copy */
> - kfree(tmp_leaf);
> + kvfree(tmp_leaf);
> }
>
> xfs_attr3_leaf_hdr_to_disk(state->args->geo, save_leaf, &savehdr);
> --
> 2.44.1
>