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| author | Fredric Cover <fredric.cover.lkernel@gmail.com> | 2026-07-11 19:54:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> | 2026-07-13 10:33:56 -0500 |
| commit | 806c00c23e3ce8eae397a40ced536ef88ae4e012 (patch) | |
| tree | aeaf8186a84773757746018e41f50301084a5e28 /scripts | |
| parent | a13c140cc289c0b7b3770bce5b3ad42ab35074aa (diff) | |
smb: client: use kvzalloc() for megabyte buffer in simple fallocate
Currently in smb3_simple_fallocate_range(), a 1 MB buffer is allocated
using kzalloc(). Under heavy memory fragmentation, a contiguous 1 MB block
of physical memory (an order-8 allocation) may not be available,
causing the allocation to fail.
This failure was observed during xfstests generic/013 on a 4GB RAM
test machine running fsstress:
fsstress: page allocation failure: order:8,
mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP),
nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
warn_alloc+0x163/0x190
__alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x71b/0x12f0
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2f6/0x340
alloc_pages_mpol+0xb6/0x170
___kmalloc_large_node+0xb3/0xd0
__kmalloc_large_noprof+0x1e/0xc0
smb3_simple_falloc.isra.0+0x62b/0x960
cifs_fallocate+0xed/0x180
vfs_fallocate+0x165/0x3c0
__x64_sys_fallocate+0x48/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0xe1/0x640
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
Node 0 Normal: 3375*4kB ... 7*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB
Since this scratch buffer does not require physically contiguous memory,
switch the allocation to kvzalloc(). This retains the performance
benefits of kmalloc() under normal conditions, while gracefully falling
back to virtually contiguous memory when physical allocation fails.
Fixes: 966a3cb7c7db ("cifs: improve fallocate emulation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fredric Cover <fredric.cover.lkernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Fredric Cover <fredric.cover.lkernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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