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* [PATCH] remove BUG() in possible but rare condition
@ 2012-04-11 18:10 Glauber Costa
  2012-04-11 18:48 ` Michal Hocko
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Glauber Costa @ 2012-04-11 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: glommer, devel, linux-mm, cgroups, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner,
	kamezawa.hiroyu, Greg Thelen, Suleiman Souhlal, Linus Torvalds,
	Andrew Morton

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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/buffer.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 36d6665..351e18e 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;
-- 
1.7.7.6

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2012-04-11 18:10 [PATCH] remove BUG() in possible but rare condition Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 18:48 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 18:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-11 19:02     ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 19:25       ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 19:20     ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 19:48       ` Don Morris
2012-04-11 21:33     ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-11 18:59   ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-11 20:51   ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 21:12     ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-11 21:26       ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-12  9:24 ` Michal Hocko

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