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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory: add memory block to memory group after registration succeeded
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 09:16:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a457b70a-004c-e49a-26d2-c207c28bda98@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220131170123.42d7f46ecea0da1cb1579113@linux-foundation.org>

On 01.02.22 02:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:45:40 +0100 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> If register_memory() fails, we freed the memory block but already added
>> the memory block to the group list, not good. Let's defer adding the
>> block to the memory group to after registering the memory block device.
>>
>> We do handle it properly during unregister_memory(), but that's not
>> called when the registration fails.
>>
> 
> I guess this has never been known to happen.  So I queued the fix for
> 5.18-rc1, cc:stable.

Triggering that registration error is fairly hard, usually we fail
memory hotplug because we fail to allocate the (largish) memmap. So I am
not aware that this BUG actually triggered.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-28 14:45 [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory: add memory block to memory group after registration succeeded David Hildenbrand
2022-01-31  5:52 ` Oscar Salvador
2022-02-01  1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2022-02-01  8:16   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2022-02-01 12:10   ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-01 12:11 ` Michal Hocko

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