Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: uv - prevent NULL dereference in uv_system_init

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:

> >  arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
> > =====================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
> > @@ -584,15 +584,18 @@ void __init uv_system_init(void)
> >  
> >  	bytes = sizeof(struct uv_blade_info) * uv_num_possible_blades();
> >  	uv_blade_info = kmalloc(bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	BUG_ON(!uv_blade_info);
> >  
> >  	get_lowmem_redirect(&lowmem_redir_base, &lowmem_redir_size);
> >  
> >  	bytes = sizeof(uv_node_to_blade[0]) * num_possible_nodes();
> >  	uv_node_to_blade = kmalloc(bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	BUG_ON(!uv_node_to_blade);
> >  	memset(uv_node_to_blade, 255, bytes);
> >  
> >  	bytes = sizeof(uv_cpu_to_blade[0]) * num_possible_cpus();
> >  	uv_cpu_to_blade = kmalloc(bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	BUG_ON(!uv_cpu_to_blade);
> >  	memset(uv_cpu_to_blade, 255, bytes);

Hm, would be nice if we had a __GFP_PANIC variant in kmalloc that 
would just panic straight in the allocator, when allocation failure 
is not acceptable. (Andrew Cc:-ed)

It does not increase the priority of the allocation nor does it 
trigger any 'dont fail' logic - it is simply the central expression 
of 'this should not have failed, panic'.

Thus we'd avoid all these duplicated BUG_ON() places.

	Ingo