While this is in a very early stage of the system boot and if memory
were exhausted the system has a more serious problem anyway - but still
the kzalloc here seems unsafe. Looking at the history it was previously
switched from alloc_bootmem() to kzalloc() using GFP_NOWAIT flag but
there never seems to have been a check for NULL return. So if this is
expected to never fail should it not be using | __GFP_NOFAIL here ?
Or put differently - what is the rational for GFP_NOWAIT to be safe here ?
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hof...@osadl.org>
Fixes 43ebdac42f16 ("vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem()")
---
Problem was found by an experimental coccinelle script
Patch was only compile tested for x86_64_defconfig
Patch is against v4.20-rc7 (localversion-next next-20181220)
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 871e41c..1c118d7 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void)
/* Import existing vmlist entries. */
for (tmp = vmlist; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) {
- va = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmap_area), GFP_NOWAIT);
+ va = kzalloc(sizeof(*va), GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOFAIL);
va->flags = VM_VM_AREA;
va->va_start = (unsigned long)tmp->addr;
va->va_end = va->va_start + tmp->size;
--
2.1.4
