From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>,
sagi@grimberg.me, hch@lst.de, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
gost.dev@samsung.com, joshi.k@samsung.com,
javier.gonz@samsung.com, p.raghav@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] nvme: Return -ENOMEM when kzalloc fails
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:02:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221030080236.GG4214@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1qxUXuqDHYi+LO+@kbusch-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:26:57AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> > In nvme_init_non_mdts_limits function we were returning 0 when kzalloc
> > failed. This patch corrects this behavior and return -ENOMEM
> > Fixes: 5befc7c26e5a ("nvme: implement non-mdts command limits")
>
> I'm pretty sure I had this returning 0 on purpose. We can proceed
> without this optional structure.
Well, we could. But I don't think it really is a good idea. Why I think
failing major resource allocation (e.g. HMB) and just continuing limited,
doing that for these tiny kmallocs that the kernel basically never fails
tends to create a lot of confusion and hard to test code pathes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-30 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20221027160102eucas1p1bb39a9a2b8ed6b54f854849532359332@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2022-10-27 15:57 ` [RFC 0/3] nvme : Add ioctl to query nvme device attributes Joel Granados
2022-10-27 15:57 ` [RFC 1/3] nvme: Return -ENOMEM when kzalloc fails Joel Granados
2022-10-27 16:26 ` Keith Busch
2022-10-28 9:07 ` Joel Granados
2022-10-30 8:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-10-31 12:36 ` Joel Granados
2022-10-27 15:57 ` [RFC 2/3] nvme: Move nvme identify CS to separate function Joel Granados
2022-10-27 15:57 ` [RFC 3/3] nvme : Add ioctl to query nvme attributes Joel Granados
2022-10-27 16:55 ` Keith Busch
2022-10-28 10:38 ` Joel Granados
2022-10-28 14:52 ` Keith Busch
2022-10-28 15:52 ` Joel Granados
2022-10-28 16:22 ` Keith Busch
2022-10-31 12:24 ` Joel Granados
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