From: "Yu Kuai" <yukuai@fnnas.com>
To: "Gregory Price" <gourry@gourry.net>, <song@kernel.org>,
<linan122@huawei.com>
Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<syzbot+924649752adf0d3ac9dd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
<akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md/raid0: use kvzalloc/kvfree for strip_zone and devlist allocations
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 13:06:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13f2856b-a5b6-410d-a39b-94cc48ca546b@fnnas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260308234202.3118119-1-gourry@gourry.net>
Hi,
在 2026/3/9 7:42, Gregory Price 写道:
> syzbot reported a WARNING at mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof()
> triggered by create_strip_zones() in the RAID0 driver.
>
> When raid_disks is large, the allocation size exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER (4MB
> on x86), causing WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER).
>
> Convert the strip_zone and devlist allocations from kzalloc/kzalloc_objs to
> kvzalloc/kvzalloc_objs, which first attempts a contiguous allocation with
> __GFP_NOWARN and then falls back to vmalloc for large sizes. Convert the
> corresponding kfree calls to kvfree.
>
> Both arrays are pure metadata lookup tables (arrays of pointers and zone
> descriptors) accessed only via indexing, so they do not require physically
> contiguous memory.
>
> Reported-by:syzbot+924649752adf0d3ac9dd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by should be followed by Closes tag, applied tom md-7.1 with following tag:
Closes:[syzbot] [mm?] WARNING in create_strip_zones - syzbot <https://lore.kernel.org/all/69adaba8.a00a0220.b130.0005.GAE@google.com/>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price<gourry@gourry.net>
> ---
> drivers/md/raid0.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--
Thansk,
Kuai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-08 17:02 [syzbot] [mm?] WARNING in create_strip_zones syzbot
2026-03-08 23:42 ` [PATCH] md/raid0: use kvzalloc/kvfree for strip_zone and devlist allocations Gregory Price
2026-03-20 4:08 ` Yu Kuai
2026-03-21 6:29 ` Li Nan
2026-04-07 5:06 ` Yu Kuai [this message]
2026-04-07 16:04 ` Gregory Price
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