[Uclinux-h8-devel] [PATCH v2 19/21] treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()

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Christophe Leroy chris****@c-s*****
2019年 1月 31日 (木) 15:07:46 JST



Le 21/01/2019 à 09:04, Mike Rapoport a écrit :
> Add check for the return value of memblock_alloc*() functions and call
> panic() in case of error.
> The panic message repeats the one used by panicing memblock allocators with
> adjustment of parameters to include only relevant ones.
> 
> The replacement was mostly automated with semantic patches like the one
> below with manual massaging of format strings.
> 
> @@
> expression ptr, size, align;
> @@
> ptr = memblock_alloc(size, align);
> + if (!ptr)
> + 	panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%lx\n", __func__,
> size, align);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt****@linux*****>
> Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo****@c-sky*****>             # c-sky
> Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.****@mips*****>	     # MIPS
> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko****@de*****> # s390
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgros****@suse*****>         # Xen
> ---

[...]

> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 7ea5dc6..ad94242 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c

[...]

> @@ -425,6 +436,10 @@ static void __init sparse_buffer_init(unsigned long size, int nid)
>   		memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, PAGE_SIZE,
>   						__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS),
>   						MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
> +	if (!sparsemap_buf)
> +		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%lx nid=%d from=%lx\n",
> +		      __func__, size, PAGE_SIZE, nid, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
> +

memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw() does not panic (help explicitly says: Does 
not zero allocated memory, does not panic if request cannot be satisfied.).

Stephen Rothwell reports a boot failure due to this change.

Christophe

>   	sparsemap_buf_end = sparsemap_buf + size;
>   }
>   
> 



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