Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, nobootmem: Add return value check in__alloc_memory_core_early()

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
> When memblock_reserve() fails because memblock.reserved.regions cannot
> be resized, the caller (e.g. alloc_bootmem()) is not informed of the
> failed allocation. Therefore alloc_bootmem() silently returns the same
> pointer again and again.
> This patch adds a check for the return value of memblock_reserve() in
> __alloc_memory_core().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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