Re: [PATCH] s390/sclp: Add check for get_zeroed_page()

[Heiko Carstens]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 05:01:17PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:31:46PM +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
> > index e5d947c763ea..7447076b1ec1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
> > +++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
> > @@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ sclp_console_init(void)
> >  	/* Allocate pages for output buffering */
> >  	for (i = 0; i < sclp_console_pages; i++) {
> >  		page = (void *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
> > +		if (!page)
> > +			return -ENOMEM;
> >  		list_add_tail(page, &sclp_con_pages);
> 
> We can add this check, however if this early allocation would fail a
> null pointer dereference would be the last problem we would have to
> think about.
> 
> Anyway:
> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Wait, I take that back. Now I think I remember why I didn't add error
handling back then: the above exit would also indicate a potential
memory leak, since this is a loop allocating several pages; so all
already allocated pages must be freed, which would ask for even more
completely pointless error handling.

This is very early code where any allocation failure would lead to a
crash in any case. So either do the full exercise or we leave the code
as it is.