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authorAndrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>2023-11-02 09:19:14 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-11-02 07:35:39 -1000
commit17fc8084aa8f9d5235f252fc3978db657dd77e92 (patch)
tree07b14e1c46a44ab2778b6e174b40898bb995440b /kernel/module
parentca219be012786654d5c802ee892433aaa0016d10 (diff)
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module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently
We consistently switched from kmalloc() to vmalloc() in module decompression to prevent potential memory allocation failures with large modules, however vmalloc() is not as memory-efficient and fast as kmalloc(). Since we don't know in general the size of the workspace required by the decompression algorithm, it is more reasonable to use kvmalloc() consistently, also considering that we don't have special memory requirements here. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module/decompress.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/decompress.c b/kernel/module/decompress.c
index 4156d59be440..474e68f0f063 100644
--- a/kernel/module/decompress.c
+++ b/kernel/module/decompress.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info,
s.next_in = buf + gzip_hdr_len;
s.avail_in = size - gzip_hdr_len;
- s.workspace = vmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize());
+ s.workspace = kvmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize(), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s.workspace)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info,
out_inflate_end:
zlib_inflateEnd(&s);
out:
- vfree(s.workspace);
+ kvfree(s.workspace);
return retval;
}
#elif defined(CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ)
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static ssize_t module_zstd_decompress(struct load_info *info,
}
wksp_size = zstd_dstream_workspace_bound(header.windowSize);
- wksp = vmalloc(wksp_size);
+ wksp = kvmalloc(wksp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!wksp) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static ssize_t module_zstd_decompress(struct load_info *info,
retval = new_size;
out:
- vfree(wksp);
+ kvfree(wksp);
return retval;
}
#else