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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gfs2: add error handling for kmem_cache_zalloc
On 12 June 2018 at 09:24, cgxu519@gmx.com <cgxu519@gmx.com> wrote:
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>> 在 2018年6月12日,上午11:38,Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@gmail.com> 写道:
>>
>> When kmem_cache_zalloc fails, the lack of error-handling code may
>> cause unexpected results.
>>
>> This patch adds error-handling code after calling kmem_cache_zalloc.
>
> Should not fail on this case.

Indeed, with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag, kmem_cache_zalloc will not fail.
This is documented in include/linux/gfp.h.

Thanks,
Andreas

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