From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 874056B02A7 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:12:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20100709190853.195193717@quilx.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:07:12 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: [S+Q2 06/19] slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init() References: <20100709190706.938177313@quilx.com> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=slub_check_kasprintf_result Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin List-ID: Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON() so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs processing. CC: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/slub.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2010-07-06 15:12:14.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2010-07-06 15:13:48.000000000 -0500 @@ -3118,9 +3118,12 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) slab_state = UP; /* Provide the correct kmalloc names now that the caches are up */ - for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) - kmalloc_caches[i]. name = - kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i); + for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) { + char *s = kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i); + + BUG_ON(!s); + kmalloc_caches[i].name = s; + } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP register_cpu_notifier(&slab_notifier); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org