Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/9] xen/events: BUG() when we can't allocateour event->irq array.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Oct 03 2011 - 12:21:55 EST


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:55:53AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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);

Duh, I even say it in the description. Changed it to be BUG_ON.
>
> but
>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
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