[1/2] mm: page_frag: Check fragsz at the beginning of __page_frag_alloc_align()

Commit Message

Haiyang Zhang April 3, 2025, 9:21 p.m. UTC

Frag allocator is not designed for fragsz > PAGE_SIZE. So, check and return
the error at the beginning of __page_frag_alloc_align(), instead of
succeed for a few times, then fail due to not refilling the cache.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[e-mail]>
---
 mm/page_frag_cache.c | 22 +++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index d2423f30577e..d6bf022087e7 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@  void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 	unsigned int size, offset;
 	struct page *page;
 
+	if (unlikely(fragsz > PAGE_SIZE)) {
+		/*
+		 * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
+		 * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE which is not supported
+		 * by design. So we simply return NULL here.
+		 */
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	if (unlikely(!encoded_page)) {
 refill:
 		page = __page_frag_cache_refill(nc, gfp_mask);
@@ -119,19 +128,6 @@  void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 	size = PAGE_SIZE << encoded_page_decode_order(encoded_page);
 	offset = __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK(nc->offset, ~align_mask);
 	if (unlikely(offset + fragsz > size)) {
-		if (unlikely(fragsz > PAGE_SIZE)) {
-			/*
-			 * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
-			 * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
-			 * enough to satisfy the request, this may
-			 * happen in low memory conditions.
-			 * We don't release the cache page because
-			 * it could make memory pressure worse
-			 * so we simply return NULL here.
-			 */
-			return NULL;
-		}
-
 		page = encoded_page_decode_page(encoded_page);
 
 		if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias))