Tests showed that under stress conditions the kernel may
temporary fail to allocate 256k with kmalloc. However,
this fix reworks the related code in the cca_findcard2()
function to use kvmalloc instead.
Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
*nr_apqns = 0;
/* fetch status of all crypto cards */
- device_status = kmalloc_array(MAX_ZDEV_ENTRIES_EXT,
- sizeof(struct zcrypt_device_status_ext),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ device_status = kvmalloc_array(MAX_ZDEV_ENTRIES_EXT,
+ sizeof(struct zcrypt_device_status_ext),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!device_status)
return -ENOMEM;
zcrypt_device_status_mask_ext(device_status);
verify = 0;
}
- kfree(device_status);
+ kvfree(device_status);
return rc;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cca_findcard2);