Am 21.03.2012 11:11, schrieb James Bottomley: > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:58 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:49:45AM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:08 +0530, santosh nayak wrote: >>>> From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> We need to add error handler if kzalloc fails to allocate and initialize. >>>> Otherwise it may lead to Null derefernce error in >>>> 'pm8001_chip_get_nvmd_req()'. >>> >>> It's a GFP_KERNEL allocation. They sleep until memory is available >>> (__GFP_WAIT). It's GFP_ATOMIC that can return NULL. >>> >> >> That's not right at all. Only __GFP_NOFAIL allocations don't need >> to be checked. > > Ah, right, that's the option I was thinking of. __GFP_WAIT may fail if > we're in direct reclaim or the oom killer gets activated. > I think it is ok to do it anytime. It is useles in the __GFP_NOFAIL case, but it is more easy to check: avoid exceptions from the rule ! re, wh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
