From 4e8f653740083f1370d6f3bf4b914bf09ede0156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Usyskin Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:59:22 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] mei: use kvmalloc for read buffer BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2099996 [ Upstream commit 4adf613e01bf99e1739f6ff3e162ad5b7d578d1a ] Read buffer is allocated according to max message size, reported by the firmware and may reach 64K in systems with pxp client. Contiguous 64k allocation may fail under memory pressure. Read buffer is used as in-driver message storage and not required to be contiguous. Use kvmalloc to allow kernel to allocate non-contiguous memory. Fixes: 3030dc056459 ("mei: add wrapper for queuing control commands.") Cc: stable Reported-by: Rohit Agarwal Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240813084542.2921300-1-rohiagar@chromium.org/ Tested-by: Brian Geffon Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin Acked-by: Tomas Winkler Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241015123157.2337026-1-alexander.usyskin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader --- drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c index 9d090fa07516..be011cef12e5 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ void mei_io_cb_free(struct mei_cl_cb *cb) return; list_del(&cb->list); - kfree(cb->buf.data); + kvfree(cb->buf.data); kfree(cb->ext_hdr); kfree(cb); } @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ struct mei_cl_cb *mei_cl_alloc_cb(struct mei_cl *cl, size_t length, if (length == 0) return cb; - cb->buf.data = kmalloc(roundup(length, MEI_SLOT_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL); + cb->buf.data = kvmalloc(roundup(length, MEI_SLOT_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL); if (!cb->buf.data) { mei_io_cb_free(cb); return NULL;