The caller can't cope with a failure from bounce_clone_bio, so use __GFP_NOFAIL for the passthrough case. bio_alloc_bioset already won't fail due to the use of mempools. And yes, we need to get rid of this bock layer bouncing code entirely sooner or later.. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/bounce.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/bounce.c b/block/bounce.c index 417faaac36b691..87983a35079c22 100644 --- a/block/bounce.c +++ b/block/bounce.c @@ -242,12 +242,11 @@ static struct bio *bounce_clone_bio(struct bio *bio_src) * __bio_clone_fast() anyways. */ if (bio_is_passthrough(bio_src)) - bio = bio_kmalloc(GFP_NOIO, bio_segments(bio_src)); + bio = bio_kmalloc(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOFAIL, + bio_segments(bio_src)); else bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, bio_segments(bio_src), &bounce_bio_set); - if (!bio) - return NULL; bio->bi_bdev = bio_src->bi_bdev; if (bio_flagged(bio_src, BIO_REMAPPED)) bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_REMAPPED); -- 2.29.2