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Subject[PATCH] net: don't use kvzalloc for DMA memory
The patch 74d332c13b21 changes alloc_netdev_mqs to use vzalloc if kzalloc
fails (later patches change it to kvzalloc).

The problem with this is that if the vzalloc function is actually used,
virtio_net doesn't work (because it expects that the extra memory should
be accessible with DMA-API and memory allocated with vzalloc isn't).

This patch changes it back to kzalloc and adds a warning if the allocated
size is too large (the allocation is unreliable in this case).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fixes: 74d332c13b21 ("net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()")

---
net/core/dev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/dev.c 2018-04-16 21:08:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c 2018-04-18 16:24:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -8366,7 +8366,8 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int
/* ensure 32-byte alignment of whole construct */
alloc_size += NETDEV_ALIGN - 1;

- p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
+ WARN_ON(alloc_size > PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
+ p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
if (!p)
return NULL;

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