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md/raid0: use kvzalloc/kvfree for strip_zone and devlist allocations
authorGregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Sun, 8 Mar 2026 23:42:02 +0000 (19:42 -0400)
committerYu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2026 05:09:21 +0000 (13:09 +0800)
commit078d1d8e688d75419abfedcae47eab8e42b991bb
tree3e9e642f39e8c8dd559cebbd9d514f5f9c242944
parent2aa72276fab9851dbd59c2daeb4b590c5a113908
md/raid0: use kvzalloc/kvfree for strip_zone and devlist allocations

syzbot reported a WARNING at mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof()
triggered by create_strip_zones() in the RAID0 driver.

When raid_disks is large, the allocation size exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER (4MB
on x86), causing WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER).

Convert the strip_zone and devlist allocations from kzalloc/kzalloc_objs to
kvzalloc/kvzalloc_objs, which first attempts a contiguous allocation with
__GFP_NOWARN and then falls back to vmalloc for large sizes. Convert the
corresponding kfree calls to kvfree.

Both arrays are pure metadata lookup tables (arrays of pointers and zone
descriptors) accessed only via indexing, so they do not require physically
contiguous memory.

Reported-by: syzbot+924649752adf0d3ac9dd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69adaba8.a00a0220.b130.0005.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20260308234202.3118119-1-gourry@gourry.net/
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
drivers/md/raid0.c