From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> stable inclusion from linux-4.19.155 commit e6786fd18fe2b91a4844f7d1606c50e09d4cebcf -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit b2a182a40278bc5849730e66bca01a762188ed86 ] sgl_alloc_order() can fail when 'length' is large on a memory constrained system. When order > 0 it will potentially be making several multi-page allocations with the later ones more likely to fail than the earlier one. So it is important that sgl_alloc_order() frees up any pages it has obtained before returning NULL. In the case when order > 0 it calls the wrong free page function and leaks. In testing the leak was sufficient to bring down my 8 GiB laptop with OOM. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 8c3036c37ba0..cf18373f4f24 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long long length, elem_len = min_t(u64, length, PAGE_SIZE << order); page = alloc_pages(gfp, order); if (!page) { - sgl_free(sgl); + sgl_free_order(sgl, order); return NULL; } -- 2.25.1