[Devel] [PATCH rh7 1/2] mm: introduce kvmalloc_check() for safe calls to kvmalloc()

[Konstantin Khorenko]

Sometimes a function which allocates high order pages is called with different
flags while kvmalloc() should be called with at least GFP_KERNEL.

kvmalloc_check() function uses kvmalloc() when possible depending on flags
provided.

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-82593

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
 mm/util.c          | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ad1e6c6953c2..6ddc426d13b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 	return kvmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
 
+extern void *kvmalloc_check(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
 
 static inline void compound_lock(struct page *page)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index ee71b7bdc3d6..e24671847a2e 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -375,6 +375,20 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
 
+/*
+ * Sometimes a function which allocates high order pages is called with
+ * different flags while kvmalloc() should be called with at least GFP_KERNEL.
+ * This function uses kvmalloc() when possible depending on flags provided.
+ */
+void *kvmalloc_check(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	if ((flags & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL)
+		return kvmalloc(size, flags);
+	else
+		return kmalloc(size, flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_check);
+
 void kvfree(const void *addr)
 {
 	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
-- 
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