APPLIED: [SRU][Xenial][PATCH 0/1] s390/qeth: use vzalloc for QUERY OAT buffer
Kleber Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue Oct 2 10:18:33 UTC 2018
On 09/20/18 11:42, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793086
>
> == SRU Justification ==
> IBM reports the qethqoat tool fails. qeth_query_oat_command() currently
> allocates the kernel buffer for the SIOC_QETH_QUERY_OAT ioctl with kzalloc.
>
> This commit will cause the use of vzalloc() instead of kzalloc(), backing
> the allocation with non-contiguous memory.
>
> Bionic and Cosmic also need this commit, but they are clean cherry picks
> so have been SRU'd separatly.
>
> == Fix ==
> aec45e857c55 ("s390/qeth: use vzalloc for QUERY OAT buffer")
>
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low, limited to s390.
>
> == Test Case ==
> IBM verified testing of this commit up-front.
>
> Wenjia Zhang (1):
> s390/qeth: use vzalloc for QUERY OAT buffer
>
> drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Applied to xenial/master-next branch.
Thanks,
Kleber
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