Re: [PATCH] mm:Return proper error code return if call to kzalloc_node falis in the function alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info

Re: [PATCH] mm:Return proper error code return if call to kzalloc_node falis in the function alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 29-06-15 11:46:53, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This changes us returning the value of one to -ENOMEM when the call
> for allocating memory with the function kzalloc_node fails in order
> to better comply with kernel coding pratices of returning this
> particular error code when memory allocations that are unrecoverable
> occur.

I do not see any point in such a patch. Let me repeat, and hopefully for
the last time, the patch has to make _sense_ and the changelog should
provide a _justification_ for the change. None of this is true for this
patch.

> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>

I am not interested in changes like this in the code I maintain.

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index acb93c5..4e80811 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4442,7 +4442,7 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int node)
>  		tmp = -1;
>  	pn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL, tmp);
>  	if (!pn)
> -		return 1;
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	for (zone = 0; zone < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone++) {
>  		mz = &pn->zoneinfo[zone];
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs