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udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc

Published Dec 27, 2024

Description

When PAGE_SIZE 4096, MAX_PAGE_ORDER 10, 64bit machine, page_alloc only support 4MB. If above this, trigger this warn and return NULL.

udmabuf can change size limit, if change it to 3072(3GB), and then alloc 3GB udmabuf, will fail create.

[ 4080.876581] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 4080.876843] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2015 at mm/page_alloc.c:4556 __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.878839] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.879470] Call Trace: [ 4080.879473] <TASK> [ 4080.879473] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.879475] ? __warn.cold+0x8e/0xe8 [ 4080.880647] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.880909] ? report_bug+0xff/0x140 [ 4080.881175] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80 [ 4080.881556] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 [ 4080.881559] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 [ 4080.882077] ? udmabuf_create+0x131/0x400

Because MAX_PAGE_ORDER, kmalloc can max alloc 4096 * (1 << 10), 4MB memory, each array entry is pointer(8byte), so can save 524288 pages(2GB).

Further more, costly order(order 3) may not be guaranteed that it can be applied for, due to fragmentation.

This patch change udmabuf array use kvmalloc_array, this can fallback alloc into vmalloc, which can guarantee allocation for any size and does not affect the performance of kmalloc allocations.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Linux
Published Dec 27, 2024
Updated May 11, 2026
Reserved Dec 27, 2024
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Oct 1, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 27, 2024
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Linux
Published Dec 27, 2024
Updated May 11, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2024-53192