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author | Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> | 2012-04-26 01:01:48 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-04-26 06:26:33 +0200 |
commit | 61065a30af8df4b8989c2ac7a1f4b4034e4df2d5 (patch) | |
tree | 3b446b3d81e996ce15901a57e85bab10fcbd8899 | |
parent | mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat (diff) | |
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fs/buffer.c: remove BUG() in possible but rare condition
While stressing the kernel with with failing allocations today, I hit the
following chain of events:
alloc_page_buffers():
bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS);
if (!bh)
goto no_grow; <= path taken
grow_dev_page():
bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, 0);
if (!bh)
goto failed; <= taken, consequence of the above
and then the failed path BUG()s the kernel.
The failure is inserted a litte bit artificially, but even then, I see no
reason why it should be deemed impossible in a real box.
Even though this is not a condition that we expect to see around every
time, failed allocations are expected to be handled, and BUG() sounds just
too much. As a matter of fact, grow_dev_page() can return NULL just fine
in other circumstances, so I propose we just remove it, then.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 36d66653b931..351e18ea2e53 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -985,7 +985,6 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, return page; failed: - BUG(); unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); return NULL; |