From: Jia-Ye Li <jiay...@synology.com>

Fix mount failed "Cannot allocate memory".

When the memory gets fragmented, kzalloc() might fail to allocate
physically contiguous pages for the struct exfat_sb_info (its size is
about 34KiB) even the total free memory is enough.
Use kvzalloc() to solve this problem.

Reviewed-by: Ethan Wu <etha...@synology.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ye Li <jiay...@synology.com>
---
 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c 
b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
index 5f6caee819a6..bfad2a6bbcb3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/mpage.h>
@@ -3450,7 +3451,7 @@ static void exfat_free_super(struct exfat_sb_info *sbi)
                kfree(sbi->options.iocharset);
        /* mutex_init is in exfat_fill_super function. only for 3.7+ */
        mutex_destroy(&sbi->s_lock);
-       kfree(sbi);
+       kvfree(sbi);
 }
 
 static void exfat_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
@@ -3845,7 +3846,7 @@ static int exfat_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void 
*data, int silent)
         * the filesystem, since we're only just about to mount
         * it and have no inodes etc active!
         */
-       sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct exfat_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+       sbi = kvzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!sbi)
                return -ENOMEM;
        mutex_init(&sbi->s_lock);
-- 
2.17.1

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