module/decompress: use vmalloc() for gzip decompression workspace

Use a similar approach as commit a419beac4a07 ("module/decompress: use
vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace") and replace kmalloc() with
vmalloc() also for the gzip module decompression workspace.

In this case the workspace is represented by struct inflate_workspace
that can be fairly large for kmalloc() and it can potentially lead to
allocation errors on certain systems:

$ pahole inflate_workspace
struct inflate_workspace {
	struct inflate_state       inflate_state;        /*     0  9544 */
	/* --- cacheline 149 boundary (9536 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
	unsigned char              working_window[32768]; /*  9544 32768 */

	/* size: 42312, cachelines: 662, members: 2 */
	/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

Considering that there is no need to use continuous physical memory,
simply switch to vmalloc() to provide a more reliable in-kernel module
decompression.

Fixes: b1ae6dc41eaa ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/module/decompress.c b/kernel/module/decompress.c
index 87440f714c0ca2757ef1bc2b3b1b78dd3a4c5113..4156d59be44081219c290c2311cdcd2aad74f1f9 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/module/decompress.c
+++ b/kernel/module/decompress.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info,
        s.next_in = buf + gzip_hdr_len;
        s.avail_in = size - gzip_hdr_len;
 
-       s.workspace = kmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize(), GFP_KERNEL);
+       s.workspace = vmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize());
        if (!s.workspace)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static ssize_t module_gzip_decompress(struct load_info *info,
 out_inflate_end:
        zlib_inflateEnd(&s);
 out:
-       kfree(s.workspace);
+       vfree(s.workspace);
        return retval;
 }
 #elif defined(CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ)