From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:42:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: dm-verity: fix unreliable memory allocation X-Git-Tag: v6.18~30^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe680d8c747f4e676ac835c8c7fb0f287cd98758;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git dm-verity: fix unreliable memory allocation GFP_NOWAIT allocation may fail anytime. It needs to be changed to GFP_NOIO. There's no need to handle an error because mempool_alloc with GFP_NOIO can't fail. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers --- diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c index d382a390d39a..72047b47a7a0 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c @@ -320,11 +320,7 @@ static int fec_alloc_bufs(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_fec_io *fio) if (fio->bufs[n]) continue; - fio->bufs[n] = mempool_alloc(&v->fec->prealloc_pool, GFP_NOWAIT); - if (unlikely(!fio->bufs[n])) { - DMERR("failed to allocate FEC buffer"); - return -ENOMEM; - } + fio->bufs[n] = mempool_alloc(&v->fec->prealloc_pool, GFP_NOIO); } /* try to allocate the maximum number of buffers */