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Fix ext4 xfstests failure

Rishabh Bhatnagar linux-mm lkml stable 1 version In review

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Cover letter [PATCH stable 4.14 0/1] Fix ext4 xfstests failure

While running xfstests on 4.14.304 version we see a warning being generated in one of ext4 tests with the following stack trace.

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 15332 at mm/util.c:414
kvmalloc_node+0x67/0x70
ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x2b4/0x870 [ext4]
__ext4_expand_extra_isize+0xcb/0x120 [ext4]
ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x1a5/0x1d0 [ext4]
ext4_ext_truncate+0x1f/0x90 [ext4]
ext4_truncate+0x363/0x400 [ext4]
ext4_setattr+0x392/0xa00 [ext4]
notify_change+0x300/0x420
? ext4_xattr_security_set+0x20/0x20 [ext4]
do_truncate+0x75/0xc0
? ext4_release_file+0xa0/0xa0 [ext4]
path_openat+0x737/0x16f0
do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110
? __check_object_size+0xb4/0x190
? do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250
do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250
do_syscall_64+0x67/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x59/0xbe

It seems rebase to 4.14.304 brings a bunch of ext4 changes. Commit ext4: allocate extended attribute value in vmalloc area (73c44f61dab180b5f2dee9f15397aba36a75a882) tries to allocate buffer using kvmalloc with improper flags that generates this warning. To fix backport an upstream commit mm: kvmalloc does not fallback to vmalloc for incompatible gfp flags (170f26afa0481c72af93aa61b7398b5663451651). This removes the WARN_ON and fallsback to kmalloc if correct flags are not passed.

Michal Hocko (1):
mm: kvmalloc does not fallback to vmalloc for incompatible gfp flags

 mm/util.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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