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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Kevin Corry <corry@ecn.purdue.edu>
Cc: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>,
	dm-devel@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm.c : Check memory allocations
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:00:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227220008.GA11577@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212272155.gBRLtWD7013508@shay.ecn.purdue.edu>

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:55:31PM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> Check memory allocations when cloning bio's.
> 
> --- linux-2.5.53a/drivers/md/dm.c	Mon Dec 23 23:21:04 2002
> +++ linux-2.5.53b/drivers/md/dm.c	Fri Dec 27 14:50:29 2002
> @@ -394,6 +393,10 @@
>  		 */
>  		clone = clone_bio(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
>  				  bio->bi_vcnt - ci->idx, ci->sector_count);
> +		if (!clone) {
> +			dec_pending(ci->io, -ENOMEM);
> +			return;
> +		}
>  		__map_bio(ti, clone, ci->io);
>  		ci->sector_count = 0;
>  
> @@ -417,6 +420,10 @@
>  		}
>  
>  		clone = clone_bio(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx, i - ci->idx, len);
> +		if (!clone) {
> +			dec_pending(ci->io, -ENOMEM);
> +			return;
> +		}
>  		__map_bio(ti, clone, ci->io);
>  
>  		ci->sector += len;


This seems a bit insufficient.  Why is this error not propagated up
through to __split_bio ?

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-27 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-27 21:55 [PATCH] dm.c : Check memory allocations Kevin Corry
2002-12-27 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-27 22:16   ` Kevin Corry
2002-12-30 10:51 ` Joe Thornber
2002-12-31 16:22   ` Kevin Corry
2003-01-02  9:55     ` Joe Thornber

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