angler-fishThe Vulnerability History Project

Revert "packet: switch kvzalloc to allocate memory"

      This reverts commit 71e41286203c017d24f041a7cd71abea7ca7b1e0.

mmap()/munmap() can not be backed by kmalloced pages :

We fault in :

    VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageSlab(page), page);

    unmap_single_vma+0x8a/0x110
    unmap_vmas+0x4b/0x90
    unmap_region+0xc9/0x140
    do_munmap+0x274/0x360
    vm_munmap+0x81/0xc0
    SyS_munmap+0x2b/0x40
    do_syscall_64+0x13e/0x1c0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7

Fixes: 71e41286203c ("packet: switch kvzalloc to allocate memory")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Bisected-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Cc: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    
commit 3a7ad0634f0986d807772ba74f66f7c3a73612e5
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