Re: [PATCH] inotify: add error handling for kmem_cache_create

From: cgxu519@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue Jun 12 2018 - 03:42:10 EST



> 在 2018年6月12日,下午12:22,Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@xxxxxxxxx> 写道:
>
> When kmem_cache_create fails, the lack of error-handling code may
> cause unexpected results.
>
> This patch adds error-handling code after calling kmem_cache_create.

I think SLAB_PANIC can handle this case.

Thanks,
Chengguang.

>
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> index ef32f36..0704bab 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> @@ -805,6 +805,8 @@ static int __init inotify_user_setup(void)
> BUG_ON(hweight32(ALL_INOTIFY_BITS) != 21);
>
> inotify_inode_mark_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(inotify_inode_mark, SLAB_PANIC);
> + if (!inotify_inode_mark_cachep)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> inotify_max_queued_events = 16384;
> init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_INOTIFY_INSTANCES] = 128;
> --
> 2.7.4
>