[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "/proc/stat: convert to single_open_size()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    /proc/stat: convert to single_open_size()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:22:37 -0700
Subject: /proc/stat: convert to single_open_size()

commit f74373a5cc7a0155d232c4e999648c7a95435bb2 upstream.

These two patches are supposed to "fix" failed order-4 memory
allocations which have been observed when reading /proc/stat.  The
problem has been observed on s390 as well as on x86.

To address the problem change the seq_file memory allocations to
fallback to use vmalloc, so that allocations also work if memory is
fragmented.

This approach seems to be simpler and less intrusive than changing
/proc/stat to use an interator.  Also it "fixes" other users as well,
which use seq_file's single_open() interface.

This patch (of 2):

Use seq_file's single_open_size() to preallocate a buffer that is large
enough to hold the whole output, instead of open coding it.  Also
calculate the requested size using the number of online cpus instead of
possible cpus, since the size of the output only depends on the number
of online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thorsten Diehl <thorsten.diehl at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea at betterlinux.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc/stat.c | 22 ++--------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/stat.c b/fs/proc/stat.c
index 1cf86c0..ccc657e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ b/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -184,29 +184,11 @@ static int show_stat(struct seq_file *p, void *v)

 static int stat_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
-	size_t size = 1024 + 128 * num_possible_cpus();
-	char *buf;
-	struct seq_file *m;
-	int res;
+	size_t size = 1024 + 128 * num_online_cpus();

 	/* minimum size to display an interrupt count : 2 bytes */
 	size += 2 * nr_irqs;
-
-	/* don't ask for more than the kmalloc() max size */
-	if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
-		size = KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE;
-	buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	res = single_open(file, show_stat, NULL);
-	if (!res) {
-		m = file->private_data;
-		m->buf = buf;
-		m->size = ksize(buf);
-	} else
-		kfree(buf);
-	return res;
+	return single_open_size(file, show_stat, NULL, size);
 }

 static const struct file_operations proc_stat_operations = {
--
1.9.1