Re: [char-misc-next v2] mei: use kvmalloc for read buffer

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 01:47:45PM +0300, Alexander Usyskin wrote:
> Read buffer is allocated according to max message size, reported by
> the firmware and may reach 64K in systems with pxp client.
> Contiguous 64k allocation may fail under memory pressure.
> Read buffer is used as in-driver message storage and not required
> to be contiguous.
> Use kvmalloc to allow kernel to allocate non-contiguous memory.
> 
> Reported-by: Rohit Agarwal <rohiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240813084542.2921300-1-rohiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Tested-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
> index 9d090fa07516..be011cef12e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ void mei_io_cb_free(struct mei_cl_cb *cb)
>  		return;
>  
>  	list_del(&cb->list);
> -	kfree(cb->buf.data);
> +	kvfree(cb->buf.data);
>  	kfree(cb->ext_hdr);
>  	kfree(cb);
>  }
> @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ struct mei_cl_cb *mei_cl_alloc_cb(struct mei_cl *cl, size_t length,
>  	if (length == 0)
>  		return cb;
>  
> -	cb->buf.data = kmalloc(roundup(length, MEI_SLOT_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	cb->buf.data = kvmalloc(roundup(length, MEI_SLOT_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!cb->buf.data) {
>  		mei_io_cb_free(cb);
>  		return NULL;
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

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