alloc_pages_bulk() is not guaranteed to return all requested pages
in a single call.
Call it repeatedly until all pages have been allocated or no more
progress is being made.
Fixes: 0913b7554726 ("lib: kunit_iov_iter: add tests for extract_iter_to_sg")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
---
lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
index f02f7b7aa796..1e6fce9cb255 100644
--- a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
size_t npages)
{
struct page **pages;
- unsigned long got;
+ unsigned long got, last;
void *buffer;
unsigned int i;
@@ -61,7 +61,15 @@ static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, pages);
*ppages = pages;
- got = alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, npages, pages);
+ got = 0;
+ while (true) {
+ last = got;
+ got = alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, npages, pages);
+
+ if (last == got || got == npages)
+ break;
+ }
+
if (got != npages) {
release_pages(pages, got);
kvfree(pages);
---
base-commit: 79bd2dded182b1d458b18e62684b7f82ffc682e5
change-id: 20260523-kunit_iov_iter-alloc_bulk-767126626ecc
Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>