* PATCH (Trivial): Fix dm_io.c oops in low memory conditions.
@ 2004-11-09 3:44 Nigel Cunningham
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From: Nigel Cunningham @ 2004-11-09 3:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
Hi.
If you call drivers/md/dm-io.c:resize_pool on an empty pool and
mempool_create is unable to make the pool, the condition is not handled
correctly, resulting in an oops in mempool_destroy.
Please apply.
Regards,
Nigel
diff -ruN 900-dm-low-memory-fix-old/drivers/md/dm-io.c 900-dm-low-memory-fix-new/drivers/md/dm-io.c
--- 900-dm-low-memory-fix-old/drivers/md/dm-io.c 2004-11-09 14:35:09.234557768 +1100
+++ 900-dm-low-memory-fix-new/drivers/md/dm-io.c 2004-11-09 13:34:36.000000000 +1100
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
/* create new pool */
_io_pool = mempool_create(new_ios, alloc_io, free_io, NULL);
if (!_io_pool)
- r = -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENOMEM;
r = bio_set_init(&_bios, "dm-io", 512, 1);
if (r) {
--
Nigel Cunningham
Pastoral Worker
Christian Reformed Church of Tuggeranong
PO Box 1004, Tuggeranong, ACT 2901
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6
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