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 mirror block job. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <ben...@irqsave.net> --- block/mirror.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c index 94c8661..07417d7 100644 --- a/block/mirror.c +++ b/block/mirror.c @@ -350,7 +350,12 @@ static void coroutine_fn mirror_run(void *opaque) } end = s->common.len >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS; - s->buf = qemu_blockalign(bs, s->buf_size); + s->buf = qemu_try_blockalign(bs, s->buf_size); + if (s->buf == NULL) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto immediate_exit; + } + sectors_per_chunk = s->granularity >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS; mirror_free_init(s); -- 1.8.3.1