Re: [PATCH] 2.6.6 buffer.c: bio_alloc() check

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 08:38:08 EST


On Wed, Jun 02 2004, Yury Umanets wrote:
> [PATCH] 2.6.6 buffer.c: adds bio_alloc() check and error handling in
> fs/buffer.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Umanets <torque@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> buffer.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff -rupN ./linux-2.6.6/fs/buffer.c ./linux-2.6.6-modified/fs/buffer.c
> --- ./linux-2.6.6/fs/buffer.c Mon May 10 05:32:38 2004
> +++ ./linux-2.6.6-modified/fs/buffer.c Wed Jun 2 15:21:47 2004
> @@ -2712,6 +2712,31 @@ void submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_hea
> * submit_bio -> generic_make_request may further map this bio around
> */
> bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
> + if (bio == NULL) {

This is wrong, bio_alloc() never fails if it's called with __GFP_WAIT in
the gfp mask.

--
Jens Axboe

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