[PATCH v6 10/25] iommufd/viommu: Add IOMMUFD_CMD_HW_QUEUE_ALLOC ioctl
Tian, Kevin
kevin.tian at intel.com
Tue Jun 24 20:45:08 PDT 2025
> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2025 3:15 PM
> +
> + offset =
> + cmd->nesting_parent_iova - PAGE_ALIGN(cmd-
> >nesting_parent_iova);
> + max_npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(offset + cmd->length, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + /*
> + * FIXME allocation may fail when sizeof(*pages) * max_npages is
> + * larger than PAGE_SIZE. This might need a new API returning a
> + * bio_vec or something more efficient.
> + */
> + pages = kcalloc(max_npages, sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pages)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
any allocation may fail... can you elaborate more here? How does
PAGE_SIZE become a boundary?
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