On 2/12/2019 9:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:42:38AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 4a9937076331..309ef5a64af5 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -734,6 +734,9 @@ struct ring_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags) size = sizeof(struct ring_buffer); size += nr_pages * sizeof(void *); + if (order_base_2(size) >= MAX_ORDER) + goto fail; + rb = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);Yes, Boris also send the entire morning bisecting this. The problem is that @size is in bytes and MAX_ORDER is in pages. That should be: if (order_base_2(size) >= PAGE_SHIFT+MAX_ORDER)
Thanks Peter! This fix works! Thanks Jin Yao

