From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> The check was first removed in 518662e ("NFS: fix usage of mempools.") as the passed GFP flags is `GFP_NOIO`. While now the flag is changed to `GFP_KERNEL` by 2b17d72 ("NFS: Clean up writeback code"), so it is better to check it. Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/write.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index eae9bf1..831fad9 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ static struct nfs_pgio_header *nfs_writehdr_alloc(void) { struct nfs_pgio_header *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_KERNEL); - memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); - p->rw_mode = FMODE_WRITE; + if (p) { + memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); + p->rw_mode = FMODE_WRITE; + } return p; } --