[PATCH v2 3/4] scsi: ipr: use kmalloc() to allocate IPR dump buffer memory

"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <[email protected]> Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:13:36 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.target-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-scsi,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
IPR dump machinery allocates memory to save adapter's crash dump using
__get_free_page().

This memory can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about it to go directly to the page allocator.

kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and
kfree() does not need to know the size of the freed object.

Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc().

While on it, relax GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOIO for allocation of dump
buffers.
The allocations happen in a workqueue context, but with storage adapter
being in a state where it can't handle I/O.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
Tested-by: Wen Xiong <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c
index d207e5e81afe..19153dd24736 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c
@@ -2893,7 +2893,7 @@ static int ipr_sdt_copy(struct ipr_ioa_cfg *ioa_cfg,
 	       (ioa_dump->hdr.len + bytes_copied) < max_dump_size) {
 		if (ioa_dump->page_offset >= PAGE_SIZE ||
 		    ioa_dump->page_offset == 0) {
-			page = (__be32 *)__get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+			page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
 
 			if (!page) {
 				ipr_trace;
@@ -3226,7 +3226,7 @@ static void ipr_release_dump(struct kref *kref)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(ioa_cfg->host->host_lock, lock_flags);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < dump->ioa_dump.next_page_index; i++)
-		free_page((unsigned long) dump->ioa_dump.ioa_data[i]);
+		kfree(dump->ioa_dump.ioa_data[i]);
 
 	vfree(dump->ioa_dump.ioa_data);
 	kfree(dump);

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