From dad0d91cc2c3e6b6fb285ccfe7ddf71525797198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:14:18 +0200 Subject: mm/slab: Add kvfree_atomic() helper kvmalloc() now supports non-sleeping GFP flags, including the vmalloc fallback path. This means it may return vmalloc memory even for GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_NOWAIT allocations. Freeing such memory with kvfree() may then end up calling vfree(), which is not safe for non-sleeping contexts. Introduce kvfree_atomic() helper for such cases. It mirrors kvfree(), but uses vfree_atomic() for vmalloced memory. Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- include/linux/slab.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 15a60b501b95..2b5ab488e96b 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -1234,6 +1234,9 @@ void *kvrealloc_node_align_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, unsigned long alig extern void kvfree(const void *addr); DEFINE_FREE(kvfree, void *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) kvfree(_T)) +extern void kvfree_atomic(const void *addr); +DEFINE_FREE(kvfree_atomic, void *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) kvfree_atomic(_T)) + extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len); unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s); -- cgit v1.2.3