linux-ext4 - Re: Checking of NULL with __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:38:53 +0530
From:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
To:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Checking of NULL with __GFP_NOFAIL in kzalloc()

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While going through jbd code, I was wondering why do we need to check
> new_transaction for NULL, if we are passing __GFP_NOFAIL ?
> Last code change around this code was when Ted converted kmalloc to
> kzalloc, but since he also didn't remove it I am guessing there would
> be some good reason for it. Can someone enlighten me ?

I didn't receive any response to this. So probably removing the NULL
check is harmless. Or should I remove the __GFP_NOFAIL flag and keep
the error handling ?

Patches to follow.

Thanks -
Manish

>
> start_this_handle() {
> ..........
>        ..........
>        new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
>                        GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
>        if (!new_transaction) {
>                ret = -ENOMEM;
>                goto out;
>        }
>        ..........
> }
>
>
> Thanks -
> Manish
>
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