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[20/20] mirror: Handle failure for potentially large allocations

Message ID 1400689698-3096-21-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
State New
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Kevin Wolf May 21, 2014, 4:28 p.m. UTC
Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure
is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle
out-of-memory situations gracefully.

This patch addresses the allocations in the mirror block job.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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 block/mirror.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stefan Hajnoczi May 22, 2014, 4:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:28:18PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure
> is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle
> out-of-memory situations gracefully.
> 
> This patch addresses the allocations in the mirror block job.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/mirror.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
index 1c38aa8..5c059c9 100644
--- a/block/mirror.c
+++ b/block/mirror.c
@@ -350,7 +350,12 @@  static void coroutine_fn mirror_run(void *opaque)
     }
 
     end = s->common.len >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS;
-    s->buf = qemu_blockalign(bs, s->buf_size);
+    s->buf = qemu_try_blockalign(bs, s->buf_size);
+    if (s->buf == NULL) {
+        ret = -ENOMEM;
+        goto immediate_exit;
+    }
+
     sectors_per_chunk = s->granularity >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS;
     mirror_free_init(s);