From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>, <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
<paulus@samba.org>, <aik@ozlabs.ru>, <anton@samba.org>,
<nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <alistair@popple.id.au>,
<deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>, Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Subject: Re: [1/1] powerpc/iommu: Handling null return of kzalloc_node
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:17:36 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150130021736.7635F1402B0@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402385530-23091-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2014-10-06 at 07:32:10 UTC, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> NULL return of kzalloc_node should be handled
Yeah it should.
But just returning doesn't seem like it's going to end well. We end up with a
device that's not properly setup.
I think we need to rework that further so that either the error is propagated
up the stack, or the device is left in a working but degraded state.
cheers
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> index 33b552f..593cd3d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> @@ -613,7 +613,11 @@ static void pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeries(struct pci_bus *bus)
>
> tbl = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct iommu_table), GFP_KERNEL,
> pci->phb->node);
> -
> + if (!tbl) {
> + pr_debug(" out of memory, can't create iommu_table !\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> iommu_table_setparms(pci->phb, dn, tbl);
> pci->iommu_table = iommu_init_table(tbl, pci->phb->node);
> iommu_register_group(tbl, pci_domain_nr(bus), 0);
> @@ -659,6 +663,10 @@ static void pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeriesLP(struct pci_bus *bus)
> if (!ppci->iommu_table) {
> tbl = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct iommu_table), GFP_KERNEL,
> ppci->phb->node);
> + if (!tbl) {
> + pr_debug(" out of memory, can't create iommu_table !\n");
> + return;
> + }
> iommu_table_setparms_lpar(ppci->phb, pdn, tbl, dma_window);
> ppci->iommu_table = iommu_init_table(tbl, ppci->phb->node);
> iommu_register_group(tbl, pci_domain_nr(bus), 0);
> @@ -686,6 +694,11 @@ static void pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeries(struct pci_dev *dev)
> pr_debug(" --> first child, no bridge. Allocating iommu table.\n");
> tbl = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct iommu_table), GFP_KERNEL,
> phb->node);
> + if (!tbl) {
> + pr_debug(" out of memory, can't create iommu_table !\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> iommu_table_setparms(phb, dn, tbl);
> PCI_DN(dn)->iommu_table = iommu_init_table(tbl, phb->node);
> iommu_register_group(tbl, pci_domain_nr(phb->bus), 0);
> @@ -1102,6 +1116,10 @@ static void pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeriesLP(struct pci_dev *dev)
> if (!pci->iommu_table) {
> tbl = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct iommu_table), GFP_KERNEL,
> pci->phb->node);
> + if (!tbl) {
> + pr_debug(" out of memory, can't create iommu_table !\n");
> + return;
> + }
> iommu_table_setparms_lpar(pci->phb, pdn, tbl, dma_window);
> pci->iommu_table = iommu_init_table(tbl, pci->phb->node);
> iommu_register_group(tbl, pci_domain_nr(pci->phb->bus), 0);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 2:17 UTC|newest]
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2014-06-10 7:32 [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/iommu: Handling null return of kzalloc_node Zhouyi Zhou
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