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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: glommer@parallels.com, <devel@openvz.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	<cgroups@vger.kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] remove BUG() in possible but rare condition
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:10:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334167824-19142-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> (raw)

While stressing the kernel with with failing allocations today,
I hit the following chain of events:

alloc_page_buffers():

	bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS);
	if (!bh)
		goto no_grow; <= path taken

grow_dev_page():
        bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, 0);
        if (!bh)
                goto failed;  <= taken, consequence of the above

and then the failed path BUG()s the kernel.

The failure is inserted a litte bit artificially, but even then,
I see no reason why it should be deemed impossible in a real box.

Even though this is not a condition that we expect to see
around every time, failed allocations are expected to be handled,
and BUG() sounds just too much. As a matter of fact, grow_dev_page()
can return NULL just fine in other circumstances, so I propose we just
remove it, then.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/buffer.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 36d6665..351e18e 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -985,7 +985,6 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 	return page;
 
 failed:
-	BUG();
 	unlock_page(page);
 	page_cache_release(page);
 	return NULL;
-- 
1.7.7.6


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 18:10 Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-04-11 18:48 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 18:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-11 19:02     ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 19:25       ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 19:20     ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-11 21:33     ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-11 18:59   ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-11 20:51   ` Glauber Costa
2012-04-11 21:12     ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-11 21:26       ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-12  9:24 ` Michal Hocko

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