[PATCH net-next V2 4/8] net/mlx5: Switch vport HCA cap helpers to kvzalloc

From
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date
2026-05-18 07:15:39
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Tariq Toukan, 2026-05-18
From: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>

mlx5_vport_set_other_func_cap() and mlx5_vport_get_vhca_id() allocate
command buffers that embed the HCA capability union, exceeding 4KiB.
Use kvzalloc/kvfree so the allocation can fall back to vmalloc when
contiguous memory is scarce.

Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
index 4effe37fd455..f8e6b1ab7c5c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ int mlx5_vport_get_vhca_id(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 vport, u16 *vhca_id)
 	if (mlx5_esw_vport_vhca_id(dev->priv.eswitch, vport, vhca_id))
 		return 0;
 
-	query_ctx = kzalloc(query_out_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	query_ctx = kvzalloc(query_out_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!query_ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ int mlx5_vport_get_vhca_id(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 vport, u16 *vhca_id)
 	*vhca_id = MLX5_GET(cmd_hca_cap, hca_caps, vhca_id);
 
 out_free:
-	kfree(query_ctx);
+	kvfree(query_ctx);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mlx5_vport_get_vhca_id);
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ int mlx5_vport_set_other_func_cap(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, const void *hca_cap
 	void *set_ctx;
 	int ret;
 
-	set_ctx = kzalloc(set_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	set_ctx = kvzalloc(set_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!set_ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1392,6 +1392,6 @@ int mlx5_vport_set_other_func_cap(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, const void *hca_cap
 	MLX5_SET(set_hca_cap_in, set_ctx, function_id, function_id);
 	ret = mlx5_cmd_exec_in(dev, set_hca_cap, set_ctx);
 
-	kfree(set_ctx);
+	kvfree(set_ctx);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.44.0
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