On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:48:31PM +0100, Zaslonko Mikhail wrote:
> >> + } else if (workspace->strm.avail_out == 0) {
> >> + /* get another page for the stream end */
> >> + kunmap(out_page);
> >> + if (nr_pages == nr_dest_pages) {
> >> + out_page = NULL;
> >> + ret = -E2BIG;
> >> + goto out;
> >> + }
> >> + out_page = alloc_page(GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> >> + if (out_page == NULL) {
> >> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> + goto out;
> >> + }
> >
> > Do we need zlib_deflateEnd() for the above error cases? Thanks,
>
> The original btrfs code did not call zlib_deflateEnd() for -E2BIG and
> -ENOMEM cases, so I stick to the same logic.
> Unlike userspace zlib where deflateEnd() frees all dynamically allocated
> memory, in the kernel it doesn't do much apart from setting the return
> code (since all the memory allocations for kernel zlib are performed in advance).
Agreed, deflateEnd is not necessary in the error cases.
