[PATCH net] gtp: use __GFP_NOWARN to avoid memalloc warning

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Taehee Yoo ap420073 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 03:24:59 UTC 2020


gtp hashtable size is received by user-space.
So, this hashtable size could be too large. If so, kmalloc will internally
print a warning message.
This warning message is actually not necessary for the gtp module.
So, this patch adds __GFP_NOWARN to avoid this message.

Splat looks like:
[ 2171.200049][ T1860] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1860 at mm/page_alloc.c:4713 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2f3/0x740
[ 2171.238885][ T1860] Modules linked in: gtp veth openvswitch nsh nf_conncount nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv]
[ 2171.262680][ T1860] CPU: 1 PID: 1860 Comm: gtp-link Not tainted 5.5.0+ #321
[ 2171.263567][ T1860] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
[ 2171.264681][ T1860] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2f3/0x740
[ 2171.265332][ T1860] Code: 64 fe ff ff 65 48 8b 04 25 c0 0f 02 00 48 05 f0 12 00 00 41 be 01 00 00 00 49 89 47 0
[ 2171.267301][ T1860] RSP: 0018:ffff8880b51af1f0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 2171.268320][ T1860] RAX: ffffed1016a35e43 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 2171.269517][ T1860] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000b RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 2171.270305][ T1860] RBP: 0000000000040cc0 R08: ffffed1018893109 R09: dffffc0000000000
[ 2171.275973][ T1860] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed1018893108 R12: 1ffff11016a35e43
[ 2171.291039][ T1860] R13: 000000000000000b R14: 000000000000000b R15: 00000000000f4240
[ 2171.292328][ T1860] FS:  00007f53cbc83740(0000) GS:ffff8880da000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 2171.293409][ T1860] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 2171.294586][ T1860] CR2: 000055f540014508 CR3: 00000000b49f2004 CR4: 00000000000606e0
[ 2171.295424][ T1860] Call Trace:
[ 2171.295756][ T1860]  ? mark_held_locks+0xa5/0xe0
[ 2171.296659][ T1860]  ? __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x21b0/0x21b0
[ 2171.298283][ T1860]  ? gtp_encap_enable_socket+0x13e/0x400 [gtp]
[ 2171.298962][ T1860]  ? alloc_pages_current+0xc1/0x1a0
[ 2171.299475][ T1860]  kmalloc_order+0x22/0x80
[ 2171.299936][ T1860]  kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x140
[ 2171.300437][ T1860]  __kmalloc+0x302/0x3a0
[ 2171.300896][ T1860]  gtp_newlink+0x293/0xba0 [gtp]
[ ... ]

Fixes: 459aa660eb1d ("gtp: add initial driver for datapath of GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U)")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/gtp.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gtp.c b/drivers/net/gtp.c
index 7032a2405e1a..af07ea760b35 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -767,12 +767,12 @@ static int gtp_hashtable_new(struct gtp_dev *gtp, int hsize)
 	int i;
 
 	gtp->addr_hash = kmalloc_array(hsize, sizeof(struct hlist_head),
-				       GFP_KERNEL);
+				       GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (gtp->addr_hash == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	gtp->tid_hash = kmalloc_array(hsize, sizeof(struct hlist_head),
-				      GFP_KERNEL);
+				      GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (gtp->tid_hash == NULL)
 		goto err1;
 
-- 
2.17.1




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