Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:19:42 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, nobootmem: Add return value check in __alloc_memory_core_early() |
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > When memblock_reserve() fails because memblock.reserved.regions cannot > be resized, the caller (e.g. alloc_bootmem()) is not informed of the > failed allocation. Therefore alloc_bootmem() silently returns the same > pointer again and again. > This patch adds a check for the return value of memblock_reserve() in > __alloc_memory_core(). > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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