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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 1678431fb4c4..d04211f0ef0b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5740,6 +5740,18 @@ refill:
/* reset page count bias and offset to start of new frag */
nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1;
offset = size - fragsz;
+ if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
+ /*
+ * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
+ * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
+ * enough to satisfy the request, this may
+ * happen in low memory conditions.
+ * We don't release the cache page because
+ * it could make memory pressure worse
+ * so we simply return NULL here.
+ */
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
nc->pagecnt_bias--;