Commit 058504ed authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Linus Torvalds

fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation

There are a couple of seq_files which use the single_open() interface.
This interface requires that the whole output must fit into a single
buffer.

E.g.  for /proc/stat allocation failures have been observed because an
order-4 memory allocation failed due to memory fragmentation.  In such
situations reading /proc/stat is not possible anymore.

Therefore change the seq_file code to fallback to vmalloc allocations
which will usually result in a couple of order-0 allocations and hence
also work if memory is fragmented.

For reference a call trace where reading from /proc/stat failed:

  sadc: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
  CPU: 1 PID: 192063 Comm: sadc Not tainted 3.10.0-123.el7.s390x #1
  [...]
  Call Trace:
    show_stack+0x6c/0xe8
    warn_alloc_failed+0xd6/0x138
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9da/0xb68
    __get_free_pages+0x2e/0x58
    kmalloc_order_trace+0x44/0xc0
    stat_open+0x5a/0xd8
    proc_reg_open+0x8a/0x140
    do_dentry_open+0x1bc/0x2c8
    finish_open+0x46/0x60
    do_last+0x382/0x10d0
    path_openat+0xc8/0x4f8
    do_filp_open+0x46/0xa8
    do_sys_open+0x114/0x1f0
    sysc_tracego+0x14/0x1a
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thorsten Diehl <thorsten.diehl@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f74373a5
......@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
......@@ -30,6 +32,16 @@ static void seq_set_overflow(struct seq_file *m)
m->count = m->size;
}
static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
void *buf;
buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!buf && size > PAGE_SIZE)
buf = vmalloc(size);
return buf;
}
/**
* seq_open - initialize sequential file
* @file: file we initialize
......@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
return 0;
}
if (!m->buf) {
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
m->buf = seq_buf_alloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE);
if (!m->buf)
return -ENOMEM;
}
......@@ -135,9 +147,9 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
Eoverflow:
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
kvfree(m->buf);
m->count = 0;
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
m->buf = seq_buf_alloc(m->size <<= 1);
return !m->buf ? -ENOMEM : -EAGAIN;
}
......@@ -192,7 +204,7 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
/* grab buffer if we didn't have one */
if (!m->buf) {
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
m->buf = seq_buf_alloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE);
if (!m->buf)
goto Enomem;
}
......@@ -232,9 +244,9 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
if (m->count < m->size)
goto Fill;
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
kvfree(m->buf);
m->count = 0;
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
m->buf = seq_buf_alloc(m->size <<= 1);
if (!m->buf)
goto Enomem;
m->version = 0;
......@@ -350,7 +362,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_lseek);
int seq_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct seq_file *m = file->private_data;
kfree(m->buf);
kvfree(m->buf);
kfree(m);
return 0;
}
......@@ -605,13 +617,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(single_open);
int single_open_size(struct file *file, int (*show)(struct seq_file *, void *),
void *data, size_t size)
{
char *buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
char *buf = seq_buf_alloc(size);
int ret;
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = single_open(file, show, data);
if (ret) {
kfree(buf);
kvfree(buf);
return ret;
}
((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->buf = buf;
......
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