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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-09-27 05:45:36 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-10-03 08:38:17 -0600
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buffer: grow_dev_page() should use __GFP_NOFAIL for all cases
We currently use it for find_or_create_page(), which means that it cannot fail. Ensure we also pass in 'retry == true' to alloc_page_buffers(), which also ensure that it cannot fail. After this, there are no failure cases in grow_dev_page() that occur because of a failed memory allocation. Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 1234ae343aef..3b60cd8456db 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -988,8 +988,6 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, gfp_mask);
- if (!page)
- return ret;
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
@@ -1008,9 +1006,7 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
/*
* Allocate some buffers for this page
*/
- bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, false);
- if (!bh)
- goto failed;
+ bh = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, true);
/*
* Link the page to the buffers and initialise them. Take the