vmalloc: fix __GFP_HIGHMEM usage for vmalloc_32 on 32b systems
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:46:01 +0000 (14:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:35:43 +0000 (15:35 -0800)
commit698d0831ba87b92ae10b15e8203cfd59f5a59a35
tree278028f8b10798d696543a5249432f85eec1b855
parentbdefe01a6b14bde268741435ac854fda4ef7e847
vmalloc: fix __GFP_HIGHMEM usage for vmalloc_32 on 32b systems

Kai Heng Feng has noticed that BUG_ON(PageHighMem(pg)) triggers in
drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_core.c since 19809c2da28a ("mm,
vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly").

saa7146_vmalloc_build_pgtable uses vmalloc_32 and it is reasonable to
expect that the resulting page is not in highmem.  The above commit
aimed to add __GFP_HIGHMEM only for those requests which do not specify
any zone modifier gfp flag.  vmalloc_32 relies on GFP_VMALLOC32 which
should do the right thing.  Except it has been missed that GFP_VMALLOC32
is an alias for GFP_KERNEL on 32b architectures.  Thanks to Matthew to
notice this.

Fix the problem by unconditionally setting GFP_DMA32 in GFP_VMALLOC32
for !64b arches (as a bailout).  This should do the right thing and use
ZONE_NORMAL which should be always below 4G on 32b systems.

Debugged by Matthew Wilcox.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212095019.GX21609@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitlyā€¯)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Kai Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c