In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/page_alloc: let GFP_ATOMIC order-0 allocs access highatomic reserves

Under memory pressure it's possible for GFP_ATOMIC order-0 allocations to
fail even though free pages are available in the highatomic reserves. 
GFP_ATOMIC allocations cannot trigger unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
since it's only run from reclaim.

Given that such allocations will pass the watermarks in
__zone_watermark_unusable_free(), it makes sense to fallback to highatomic
reserves the same way that ALLOC_OOM can.

This fixes order-0 page allocation failures observed on Cloudflare's fleet
when handling network packets:

  kswapd1: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x820(GFP_ATOMIC),
  nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-7
  CPU: 10 PID: 696 Comm: kswapd1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O 6.6.43-CUSTOM #1
  Hardware name: MACHINE
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x3c/0x50
   warn_alloc+0x13a/0x1c0
   __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xc9d/0xd10
   __alloc_pages+0x327/0x340
   __napi_alloc_skb+0x16d/0x1f0
   bnxt_rx_page_skb+0x96/0x1b0 [bnxt_en]
   bnxt_rx_pkt+0x201/0x15e0 [bnxt_en]
   __bnxt_poll_work+0x156/0x2b0 [bnxt_en]
   bnxt_poll+0xd9/0x1c0 [bnxt_en]
   __napi_poll+0x2b/0x1b0
   bpf_trampoline_6442524138+0x7d/0x1000
   __napi_poll+0x5/0x1b0
   net_rx_action+0x342/0x740
   handle_softirqs+0xcf/0x2b0
   irq_exit_rcu+0x6c/0x90
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x90
   </IRQ>

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  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241015125158.3597702-1-matt@readmodwrite.com