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From:   "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <ke.wang@unisoc.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: use kvmalloc for big coredump file
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:55:23 +0800
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From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>

High order page allocation observed which even introduce kernel panic when generating
coredump file, use kvmalloc_array instead of kmalloc_array

[68058.982108] init: Untracked pid 3847 exited with status 0
[68058.982343] init: Untracked pid 3847 did not have an associated service entry and will not be reaped
[68059.038127] warn_alloc: 29 callbacks suppressed
[68059.038132] TimerThread: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=foreground,mems_allowed=0
[68059.038155] CPU: 6 PID: 3597 Comm: TimerThread Tainted: G        W  OE     5.15.41-android13-8-01198-g03458ee9a090-ab000039 #1
[68059.038159] Hardware name: Unisoc UMS9620-base Board (DT)
[68059.038161] Call trace:
[68059.038163]  dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
[68059.038169]  dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xe8
[68059.038174]  warn_alloc+0x164/0x200
[68059.038180]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d4/0xb64
[68059.038183]  __alloc_pages+0x21c/0x39c
[68059.038186]  kmalloc_order+0x4c/0x13c
[68059.038189]  kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0x154
[68059.038192]  __kmalloc+0x600/0x8a8
[68059.038196]  elf_core_dump+0x7c4/0x15d8
[68059.038201]  do_coredump+0x680/0xe54
[68059.038203]  get_signal+0x610/0x988
[68059.038209]  do_signal+0xd4/0x2bc
[68059.038213]  do_notify_resume+0xa0/0x1c8
[68059.038216]  el0_svc+0x68/0x90
[68059.038219]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
[68059.038222]  el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8

Reported-by: Guanglu Xu <guanglu.xu@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
---
 fs/coredump.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index ebc43f9..ed9b191 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int format_corename(struct core_name *cn, struct coredump_params *cprm,
 
 	if (ispipe) {
 		int argvs = sizeof(core_pattern) / 2;
-		(*argv) = kmalloc_array(argvs, sizeof(**argv), GFP_KERNEL);
+		(*argv) = kvmalloc_array(argvs, sizeof(**argv), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!(*argv))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		(*argv)[(*argc)++] = 0;
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
 			goto fail_dropcount;
 		}
 
-		helper_argv = kmalloc_array(argc + 1, sizeof(*helper_argv),
+		helper_argv = kvmalloc_array(argc + 1, sizeof(*helper_argv),
 					    GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!helper_argv) {
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s failed to allocate memory\n",
-- 
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