linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] smpboot: Check for successfull allocation of cpumask vars

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1412092103270.16275@nanos>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:10:20 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <x86@...nel.org>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	"open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] smpboot: Check for successfull allocation of cpumask
 vars

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> zalloc_cpumask_var() can return 0 on allocation failure when
> CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is set. Check for the return value and WARN() on failure
> of an allocation in such cases.

And that warning helps in which way?

It just prints a completely useless backtrace and breaks out of the
loop, but it does not prevent that later on code will trip over the
non allocated per cpu data.

Thanks,

	tglx
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