linux-kernel - [patch V3 06/18] posix-timers: Remove SLAB

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Message-ID: <20250308155623.829215801@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat,  8 Mar 2025 17:48:26 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
 Benjamin Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
 Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@...tuozzo.com>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: [patch V3 06/18] posix-timers: Remove SLAB_PANIC from kmem cache

There is no need to panic when the posix-timer kmem_cache can't be
created. timer_create() will fail with -ENOMEM and that's it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
V2: New patch
---
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -243,9 +243,8 @@ static int posix_get_hrtimer_res(clockid
 
 static __init int init_posix_timers(void)
 {
-	posix_timers_cache = kmem_cache_create("posix_timers_cache",
-					sizeof(struct k_itimer), 0,
-					SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
+	posix_timers_cache = kmem_cache_create("posix_timers_cache", sizeof(struct k_itimer), 0,
+					       SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
 	return 0;
 }
 __initcall(init_posix_timers);
@@ -371,8 +370,12 @@ static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigeven
 
 static struct k_itimer *alloc_posix_timer(void)
 {
-	struct k_itimer *tmr = kmem_cache_zalloc(posix_timers_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct k_itimer *tmr;
 
+	if (unlikely(!posix_timers_cache))
+		return NULL;
+
+	tmr = kmem_cache_zalloc(posix_timers_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmr)
 		return tmr;