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Message-ID: <20070817155659.GD24323@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:59 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/23] lib: percpu_counter_init error handling

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:45:34AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> alloc_percpu can fail, propagate that error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> ---
>  fs/ext2/super.c                |   11 ++++++++---
>  fs/ext3/super.c                |   11 ++++++++---
>  fs/ext4/super.c                |   11 ++++++++---
>  include/linux/percpu_counter.h |    5 +++--
>  lib/percpu_counter.c           |    8 +++++++-
>  5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/super.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/super.c
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/super.c
> @@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_
>  	int db_count;
>  	int i, j;
>  	__le32 features;
> +	int err;
>  
>  	sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!sbi)
> @@ -996,12 +997,16 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_
>  	sbi->s_rsv_window_head.rsv_goal_size = 0;
>  	ext2_rsv_window_add(sb, &sbi->s_rsv_window_head);
>  
> -	percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter,
> +	err = percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter,
>  				ext2_count_free_blocks(sb));
> -	percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter,
> +	err |= percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter,
>  				ext2_count_free_inodes(sb));
> -	percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_dirs_counter,
> +	err |= percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_dirs_counter,
>  				ext2_count_dirs(sb));
> +	if (err) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: insufficient memory\n");
> +		goto failed_mount3;
> +	}

Can percpu_counter_init fail with only one error code? If not, the error
code potentially used in future at failed_mount3 could be nonsensical
because of the bitwise or-ing.

> Index: linux-2.6/lib/percpu_counter.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/lib/percpu_counter.c
> +++ linux-2.6/lib/percpu_counter.c
> @@ -68,21 +68,27 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_c
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__percpu_counter_sum);
>  
> -void percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount)
> +int percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount)
>  {
>  	spin_lock_init(&fbc->lock);
>  	fbc->count = amount;
>  	fbc->counters = alloc_percpu(s32);
> +	if (!fbc->counters)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
>  	mutex_lock(&percpu_counters_lock);
>  	list_add(&fbc->list, &percpu_counters);
>  	mutex_unlock(&percpu_counters_lock);
>  #endif
> +	return 0;
>  }

I guess this answers my question. But I'd still be weary because a trivial
change here could produce very strange error codes in ext2/3/4.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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