Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-03-24-17-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "21 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 11 are for MM, the remainder
  are for other subsystems"

* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-03-24-17-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (21 commits)
  mm: mmap: remove newline at the end of the trace
  mailmap: add entries for Richard Leitner
  kcsan: avoid passing -g for test
  kfence: avoid passing -g for test
  mm: kfence: fix using kfence_metadata without initialization in show_object()
  lib: dhry: fix unstable smp_processor_id(_) usage
  mailmap: add entry for Enric Balletbo i Serra
  mailmap: map Sai Prakash Ranjan's old address to his current one
  mailmap: map Rajendra Nayak's old address to his current one
  Revert "kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare"
  mailmap: add entry for Tobias Klauser
  kasan, powerpc: don't rename memintrinsics if compiler adds prefixes
  mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown
  kselftest: vm: fix unused variable warning
  mm: fix error handling for map_deny_write_exec
  mm: deduplicate error handling for map_deny_write_exec
  checksyscalls: ignore fstat to silence build warning on LoongArch
  nilfs2: fix kernel-infoleak in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy()
  test_maple_tree: add more testing for mas_empty_area()
  maple_tree: fix mas_skip_node() end slot detection
  ...

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ef910bf349e1..bef6cf2b4d46 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2883,6 +2883,8 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 		unsigned int order, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_allocated = 0;
+	gfp_t alloc_gfp = gfp;
+	bool nofail = false;
 	struct page *page;
 	int i;
 
@@ -2893,6 +2895,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 	 * more permissive.
 	 */
 	if (!order) {
+		/* bulk allocator doesn't support nofail req. officially */
 		gfp_t bulk_gfp = gfp & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
 
 		while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
@@ -2931,20 +2934,35 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 			if (nr != nr_pages_request)
 				break;
 		}
+	} else if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
+		/*
+		 * Higher order nofail allocations are really expensive and
+		 * potentially dangerous (pre-mature OOM, disruptive reclaim
+		 * and compaction etc.
+		 */
+		alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
+		nofail = true;
 	}
 
 	/* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */
-
 	while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
 		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
 			break;
 
 		if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
-			page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
+			page = alloc_pages(alloc_gfp, order);
 		else
-			page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, order);
-		if (unlikely(!page))
-			break;
+			page = alloc_pages_node(nid, alloc_gfp, order);
+		if (unlikely(!page)) {
+			if (!nofail)
+				break;
+
+			/* fall back to the zero order allocations */
+			alloc_gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+			order = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Higher order allocations must be able to be treated as
 		 * indepdenent small pages by callers (as they can with