netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: ipmr: remove SLAB

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Date:	Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:23:33 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: ipmr: remove SLAB_PANIC

On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 14:01 +0100, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> It's not necessary to panic upon allocation failure, returning an error
> at that point is okay because user-space won't be able to use any of the
> ops since they didn't get registered and the default table is null.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> index a006d96d6cd9..2c7fa584a274 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> @@ -2675,7 +2675,7 @@ int __init ip_mr_init(void)
>  
>  	mrt_cachep = kmem_cache_create("ip_mrt_cache",
>  				       sizeof(struct mfc_cache),
> -				       0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC,
> +				       0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
>  				       NULL);
>  	if (!mrt_cachep)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

This runs at boot time.

I very much prefer a panic instead of having to deal with a host with a
probable bug in mm layer at this point.

For IPv6, it is a different matter as it might be a module, thus
ip6_mr_init() does not use SLAB_PANIC



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