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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0809102132590.19109@titan.stealer.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:42:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
cc: linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: md: Check for memory allocation failure in faulty personality
It's a fault injection module, but I don't think we should oops here.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
---
drivers/md/faulty.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Other personalities return -EIO, when something like this happens, but I
don't see a reason why we shouldn't return the more appropriate -ENOMEM
here.
diff --git a/drivers/md/faulty.c b/drivers/md/faulty.c
index 268547d..f26c1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/faulty.c
+++ b/drivers/md/faulty.c
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
int i;
conf_t *conf = kmalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!conf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
for (i=0; i<Modes; i++) {
atomic_set(&conf->counters[i], 0);
--
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