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[19/20] vpc: Handle failure for potentially large allocations

Message ID 1400689698-3096-20-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 vpc block driver.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 block/vpc.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stefan Hajnoczi May 22, 2014, 4:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:28:17PM +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 vpc block driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/vpc.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/block/vpc.c b/block/vpc.c
index 2e25f57..a6346bb 100644
--- a/block/vpc.c
+++ b/block/vpc.c
@@ -269,7 +269,11 @@  static int vpc_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
             goto fail;
         }
 
-        s->pagetable = qemu_blockalign(bs, s->max_table_entries * 4);
+        s->pagetable = qemu_try_blockalign(bs, s->max_table_entries * 4);
+        if (s->pagetable == NULL) {
+            ret = -ENOMEM;
+            goto fail;
+        }
 
         s->bat_offset = be64_to_cpu(dyndisk_header->table_offset);