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Mikulas Patocka ee030e4ffa dm persistent data: fix memory allocation failure
commit faada2174c upstream.

kmalloc is unreliable when allocating more than 8 pages of memory. It may
fail when there is plenty of free memory but the memory is fragmented.
Zdenek Kabelac observed such failure in his tests.

This commit changes kmalloc to kvmalloc - kvmalloc will fall back to
vmalloc if the large allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-09-04 13:17:29 +02:00
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