[PATCH 3/3] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on failure

From: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
Date: Sun May 16 2021 - 16:35:54 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a8e50278019a..b2a0cbfa37c1 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2781,11 +2781,11 @@ 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;
}

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