From 8a1f9d85902d08bfab341d538395b6def692349a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:41:51 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] usb: core: devices: use kmalloc() to allocate dump buffer usb_device_dump() allocates a buffer for formatting /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices output text. This buffer 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. Performance difference between kmalloc() and __get_free_pages() is not measurable as both allocators take an object/page from a per-CPU list for fast path allocations. For the slow path the performance is anyway determined by the amount of reclaim involved rather than by what allocator is used. Replace use of __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() and free_pages() with kfree(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Alan Stern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701-b4-usb-v2-2-272807df4b64@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/core/devices.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c index a247da73f34d..6f0354aba38b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ */ #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -408,7 +409,7 @@ static ssize_t usb_device_dump(char __user **buffer, size_t *nbytes, return 0; /* allocate 2^1 pages = 8K (on i386); * should be more than enough for one device */ - pages_start = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOIO, 1); + pages_start = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE << 1, GFP_NOIO); if (!pages_start) return -ENOMEM; @@ -479,7 +480,7 @@ static ssize_t usb_device_dump(char __user **buffer, size_t *nbytes, if (length > *nbytes) length = *nbytes; if (copy_to_user(*buffer, pages_start + *skip_bytes, length)) { - free_pages((unsigned long)pages_start, 1); + kfree(pages_start); return -EFAULT; } *nbytes -= length; @@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ static ssize_t usb_device_dump(char __user **buffer, size_t *nbytes, } else *skip_bytes -= length; - free_pages((unsigned long)pages_start, 1); + kfree(pages_start); /* Now look at all of this device's children. */ usb_hub_for_each_child(usbdev, chix, childdev) {