Re: [linus:master] [mm] c6307674ed: BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/vmalloc.c

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 09:17:54AM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
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> since your GFP_ATOMIC context allocated chunk of memory using vmalloc()
> sense kvfree() uses vfree(). The simplest fix to free via RCU.

Why is kvmalloc returning vmalloc memory under GFP_ATOMIC?
Is there a new GFP flag to tell it to not return vmalloc memory?

This has been working for over a decade, what changed?

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