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scsi: sd_zbc: Use kvzalloc() to allocate REPORT ZONES buffer

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We have two reports of failed memory allocation in btrfs' code which is
calling into report zones.

Both of these reports have the following signature coming from
__vmalloc_area_node():

 kworker/u17:5: vmalloc error: size 0, failed to allocate pages, mode:0x10dc2(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0

Further debugging showed these where allocations of one sector (512
bytes) and at least one of the reporter's systems where low on memory,
so going through the overhead of allocating a vm area failed.

Switching the allocation from __vmalloc() to kvzalloc() avoids the
overhead of vmalloc() on small allocations and succeeds.

Note: the buffer is already freed using kvfree() so there's no need to
adjust the free path.

Cc: Qu Wenru <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Link: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/779
Link: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/915
Fixes: 23a50861ad ("scsi: sd_zbc: Cleanup sd_zbc_alloc_report_buffer()")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241030110253.11718-1-jth@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Johannes Thumshirn 2024-10-30 12:02:53 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -216,8 +216,7 @@ static void *sd_zbc_alloc_report_buffer(struct scsi_disk *sdkp,
bufsize = min_t(size_t, bufsize, queue_max_segments(q) << PAGE_SHIFT);
while (bufsize >= SECTOR_SIZE) {
buf = __vmalloc(bufsize,
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY);
buf = kvzalloc(bufsize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY);
if (buf) {
*buflen = bufsize;
return buf;