linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gfs2: add error handling for kmem_cache

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:23:30 +0200
From:   Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:     "cgxu519@....com" <cgxu519@....com>
Cc:     Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@...il.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
        cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gfs2: add error handling for kmem_cache_zalloc

On 12 June 2018 at 09:24, cgxu519@....com <cgxu519@....com> wrote:
>
>> 在 2018年6月12日，上午11:38，Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@...il.com> 写道：
>>
>> When kmem_cache_zalloc fails, the lack of error-handling code may
>> cause unexpected results.
>>
>> This patch adds error-handling code after calling kmem_cache_zalloc.
>
> Should not fail on this case.

Indeed, with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag, kmem_cache_zalloc will not fail.
This is documented in include/linux/gfp.h.

Thanks,
Andreas