Re: [RFC -v2 5/8] ext4: Do not fail journal due to block allocator

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Aug 18 2015 - 06:55:53 EST


On Tue 18-08-15 12:39:03, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> @@ -992,9 +992,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(struct super_block *sb,
> block = group * 2;
> pnum = block / blocks_per_page;
> poff = block % blocks_per_page;
> - page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
> - if (!page)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum,
> + GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);

Scratch this one. find_or_create_page is allowed to return NULL. The
patch is bogus. I was overly eager to turn all places to not check the
return value.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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