From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
sonnyrao@chromium.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: Failing to decompress is WARN_ON worthy
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:46:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918144623.GA748396@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200917174059.1.If09c882545dbe432268f7a67a4d4cfcb6caace4f@changeid>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 05:41:20PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> If we fail to decompress in zram it's a pretty serious problem. We
> were entrusted to be able to decompress the old data but we failed.
> Either we've got some crazy bug in the compression code or we've got
> memory corruption.
>
> At the moment, when this happens the log looks like this:
>
> ERR kernel: [ 1833.099861] zram: Decompression failed! err=-22, page=336112
> ERR kernel: [ 1833.099881] zram: Decompression failed! err=-22, page=336112
> ALERT kernel: [ 1833.099886] Read-error on swap-device (253:0:2688896)
>
> It is true that we have an "ALERT" level log in there, but (at least
> to me) it feels like even this isn't enough to impart the seriousness
> of this error. Let's convert to a WARN_ON. Note that WARN_ON is
> automatically "unlikely" so we can simply replace the old annotation
> with the new one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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