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authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>2021-06-29 05:40:17 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-06-29 20:53:52 +0300
commitcd61413baa1052fc13e75dd092a0e23ac29a0205 (patch)
treee0e542a6466ee5f888f42c1f1f0866666e8ff17d /mm
parent5c1f4e690eecc795b2e4d4408e87302040fceca4 (diff)
downloadlinux-cd61413baa1052fc13e75dd092a0e23ac29a0205.tar.xz
mm/vmalloc: print a warning message first on failure
When a memory allocation for array of pages are not succeed emit a warning message as a first step and then perform the further cleanup. The reason it should be done in a right order is the clean up function which is free_vm_area() can potentially also follow its error paths what can lead to confusion what was broken first. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210516202056.2120-4-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index e630f2cf7900..74a31abaa52c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2783,11 +2783,11 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
}
if (!area->pages) {
- free_vm_area(area);
warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
"vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
"page array size %lu allocation failed",
nr_small_pages * PAGE_SIZE, array_size);
+ free_vm_area(area);
return NULL;
}