Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/9] xen/events: BUG() when we can'tallocate our event->irq array.

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Sep 30 2011 - 03:55:59 EST


On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 20:52 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> In case we can't allocate we are doomed. We should BUG_ON
> instead of trying to dereference it later on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/events.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> index 7523719..5db04bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> @@ -1670,6 +1670,8 @@ void __init xen_init_IRQ(void)
>
> evtchn_to_irq = kcalloc(NR_EVENT_CHANNELS, sizeof(*evtchn_to_irq),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!evtchn_to_irq)
> + BUG();

AKA
BUG_ON(!evtchn_to_irq);

but

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>


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