We currently it it for find_or_create_page(), which means that it cannot fail. Ensure we also pass in 'retry == true' to alloc_page_buffers(), which also ensure that it cannot fail. After this, there are no failure cases in grow_dev_page() that occur because of a failed memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 1234ae343aef..3b60cd8456db 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -988,8 +988,6 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL; page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, gfp_mask); - if (!page) - return ret; BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); @@ -1008,9 +1006,7 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, /* * Allocate some buffers for this page */ - bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, false); - if (!bh) - goto failed; + bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, true); /* * Link the page to the buffers and initialise them. Take the -- 2.7.4
