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* [PATCH 6/6] Handle possible bio_alloc failure in bounce buffer
@ 2009-04-14 11:06 Nikanth Karthikesan
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From: Nikanth Karthikesan @ 2009-04-14 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe; +Cc: linux-kernel, Andrew Morton

Handle possible bio_alloc failure in bounce buffer.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

---

Index: linux-2.6/mm/bounce.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/bounce.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/bounce.c
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ static void __blk_queue_bounce(struct re
 			unsigned int cnt = (*bio_orig)->bi_vcnt;
 
 			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, cnt);
+			if (unlikely(!bio))
+				panic("Unable to allocate bios\n");
+			
 			memset(bio->bi_io_vec, 0, cnt * sizeof(struct bio_vec));
 		}
 			



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