On 27.09.2017 23:13, Jens Axboe wrote: > We currently it it for find_or_create_page(), which means that it nit: Perhaps you wanted to write "We currently use it for find_..." otherwise: Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> > 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 >
