This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/radeon: Use drm_malloc_ab instead of kmalloc_array

to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-radeon-use-drm_malloc_ab-instead-of-kmalloc_array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From e5a5fd4df21b9c4acb67e815ec949cce594860f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Michel=20D=C3=A4nzer?= <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:40:54 +0900
Subject: drm/radeon: Use drm_malloc_ab instead of kmalloc_array
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Michel=20D=C3=A4nzer?= <[email protected]>

commit e5a5fd4df21b9c4acb67e815ec949cce594860f8 upstream.

Should avoid kmalloc failures due to large number of array entries.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81991
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c   |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ring.c |    4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_vm.c   |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static void radeon_cs_parser_fini(struct
        kfree(parser->track);
        kfree(parser->relocs);
        kfree(parser->relocs_ptr);
-       kfree(parser->vm_bos);
+       drm_free_large(parser->vm_bos);
        for (i = 0; i < parser->nchunks; i++)
                drm_free_large(parser->chunks[i].kdata);
        kfree(parser->chunks);
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ring.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ unsigned radeon_ring_backup(struct radeo
        }
 
        /* and then save the content of the ring */
-       *data = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(uint32_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+       *data = drm_malloc_ab(size, sizeof(uint32_t));
        if (!*data) {
                mutex_unlock(&rdev->ring_lock);
                return 0;
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int radeon_ring_restore(struct radeon_de
        }
 
        radeon_ring_unlock_commit(rdev, ring, false);
-       kfree(data);
+       drm_free_large(data);
        return 0;
 }
 
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_vm.c
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ struct radeon_cs_reloc *radeon_vm_get_bo
        struct radeon_cs_reloc *list;
        unsigned i, idx;
 
-       list = kmalloc_array(vm->max_pde_used + 2,
-                            sizeof(struct radeon_cs_reloc), GFP_KERNEL);
+       list = drm_malloc_ab(vm->max_pde_used + 2,
+                            sizeof(struct radeon_cs_reloc));
        if (!list)
                return NULL;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.17/drm-radeon-use-drm_malloc_ab-instead-of-kmalloc_array.patch
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