On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:10:16AM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > > > > > 'lustre_cfg_new()' can return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). > > > Handle these errors and propagate the error code to the callers. > > > > > > Error handling has been rearranged in 'lustre_process_log()' with the > > > addition of a label in order to free some resources. > > > > I wonder if we should just make it return NULL on allocation failure, > > and then at least the other error handling that is there (i.e. in your other patch) > > would become correct. > > This would make handling in mgc_apply_recover_logs incorrect, but it's already > > geared towards this sort of handling anyway, as it discards the passed error > > and sets ENOMEM unconditionally (just need to revert 3092c34a in a way). > > The header lustre_cfg.h is meant to be a UAPI header file. It is used for > our userland tools but with the current shape of lustre_cfg.h upstream our > tools will not build with it. So having kzalloc and kfree in this header > is incorrect. To do this right I need to update our user land tools as > well so we should hold off on these patches. Ok, but the code as-is today is incorrect, so that should get fixed somehow, soon... thanks, greg k-h -- 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
