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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] repair: handle memory allocation failure from blkmap_grow
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:14:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111010141437.GC31429@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318208915-14975-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:08:33PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> If blkmap_grow fails to allocate a new chunk of memory, it returns
> with a null blkmap. The sole caller of blkmap_grow does not check
> for this failure, and so will segfault if this error ever occurs.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Two comments on the code not directly related to your change:

 - it seems like xfs_db has another copy of these blkmap routines,
   which even missed the last round of updates during the repair
   scalability work.  It seems like it should be switched to reuse
   the repair code
 - growing the map by four seems to be incredibly inefficient for
   large files.  Given that the only caller actually knows how many
   entries it processes in that batch we should grow it at least by
   the number, reducing the allocations to one per call to
   process_bmbt_reclist_int.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10  1:08 [PATCH 0/5, v3] repair: sector size and blkmap fixes Dave Chinner
2011-10-10  1:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] repair: handle repair of image files on large sector size filesystems Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13  9:57   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10  1:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] repair: fix a valgrind reported error on i686 Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13  9:57   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10  1:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] repair: handle memory allocation failure from blkmap_grow Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:14   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-13  9:57   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10  1:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] repair: don't cache large blkmap allocations Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13  9:57   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10  1:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] repair: prevent blkmap extent count overflows Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13  9:58   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 14:18 ` [PATCH 0/5, v3] repair: sector size and blkmap fixes Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 23:12   ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-09 23:11 [PATCH 0/5, v2] " Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/5] repair: handle memory allocation failure from blkmap_grow Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10  0:10     ` Dave Chinner

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