On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:56:53AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> In tracking this down, I followed the call chains and discovered that
> io_submit_init_bio() only ever returned 0. Switching that to return
> void and following back up the chain lead to the following patch.
Actually, that's a bug. We're missing an check in that function.
Thanks for looking at this code. (I'll fix the uninitialized err
warning another way.)
- Ted
commit 7745883f99c0e81e6bc71527d23ca363eb125a3f
Author: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Date: Thu Jun 6 10:18:22 2013 -0400
ext4: add check to io_submit_init_bio
The bio_alloc() function can return NULL if the memory allocation
fails. So we need to check for this.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index ce8c15a..48786cd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ static int io_submit_init_bio(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
struct bio *bio;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
+ if (!bio)
+ return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
bio->bi_end_io = ext4_end_bio;
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