Re: [PATCH] xen-netback: corretly check failed allocation

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 12:26 -0400, Insu Yun wrote:
> Since vzalloc can be failed in memory pressure,
> return value should be checked and return ENOMEM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen
> -netback/xenbus.c
> index 929a6e7..e288246 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
> @@ -788,6 +788,11 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *be)
>  	/* Use the number of queues requested by the frontend */
>  	be->vif->queues = vzalloc(requested_num_queues *
>  				  sizeof(struct xenvif_queue));
> +  if (!be->vif->queues)  {
> +    xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, -ENOMEM, "allocating queues");
> +    return;
> +  }

Please fix the coding style, perhaps using checkpatch.pl or by observing
the surrounding code.

Ian.

> +
>  	be->vif->num_queues = requested_num_queues;
>  	be->vif->stalled_queues = requested_num_queues;
>  
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