Re: [PATCH v3] virtio_blk: Fix a slient kernel panic

From: Minfei Huang
Date: Fri Jul 22 2016 - 22:04:59 EST



Ping, Any comment is appreciate.

Thanks
Minfei

> On Jul 19, 2016, at 20:22, Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:32:42 +0800
> Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> We do a lot of memory allocation in function init_vq, and don't handle
>> the allocation failure properly. Then this function will return 0,
>> although initialization fails due to lacking memory. At that moment,
>> kernel will panic in guest machine, if virtio is used to drive disk.
>>
>> To fix this bug, we should take care of allocation failure, and return
>> correct value to let caller know what happen.
>>
>> Tested-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <minfei.hmf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> - Remove useless initialisation to NULL
>> v1:
>> - Refactor the patch to make code more readable
>> ---
>> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 26 ++++++++------------------
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> Your changes certainly make the function more compact.
>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

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