Re: [RFC -v2 5/8] ext4: Do not fail journal due to block allocator

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On Tue 18-08-15 12:39:03, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> @@ -992,9 +992,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(struct super_block *sb,
>  	block = group * 2;
>  	pnum = block / blocks_per_page;
>  	poff = block % blocks_per_page;
> -	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
> -	if (!page)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum,
> +				   GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);

Scratch this one. find_or_create_page is allowed to return NULL. The
patch is bogus. I was overly eager to turn all places to not check the
return value.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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