On 3/16/23 1:22 PM, Fedor Pchelkin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 08:04:24PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >> How can you trigger a GFP_ATOMIC memory failure? If you do, worse >> things are about to happen to your system, right? >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h > > Well, Syzkaller triggers them with fail slab, and that is more for > debugging purposes to detect improper handling of error paths. > > I agree that if GFP_ATOMIC memory allocation fails then the system is in > more trouble. Do you mean this is the point not to backport it? Now I'm > actually not quite sure about this... It's not clear to me whether such > things should be backported: on one hand, it is a bug which can actually > occur (yes, in very bad situation), on the other - the whole system is not > good anyway. I agree with both of you - the likelihood of this happening outside of synthetic error injection is very small, and if it does, the system has probably gone to shit anyway. On the other hand, this does bring the code in line with what upstream is doing, and I think it's worth adding for that reason alone. -- Jens Axboe
