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

From: Yury Umanets
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 09:24:30 EST


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:36, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I see. Thanks.

--
umka

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