Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle out-of-memory situations gracefully.
This patch addresses the allocations in the rbd block driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- block/rbd.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/rbd.c b/block/rbd.c index dbc79f4..2ac65a8 100644 --- a/block/rbd.c +++ b/block/rbd.c @@ -630,7 +630,10 @@ static BlockDriverAIOCB *rbd_start_aio(BlockDriverState *bs, if (cmd == RBD_AIO_DISCARD || cmd == RBD_AIO_FLUSH) { acb->bounce = NULL; } else { - acb->bounce = qemu_blockalign(bs, qiov->size); + acb->bounce = qemu_try_blockalign(bs, qiov->size); + if (acb->bounce == NULL) { + goto failed; + } } acb->ret = 0; acb->error = 0; -- 1.8.3.1