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[v3,20/21] mirror: Handle failure for potentially large allocations

Message ID 1401801062-9154-21-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
State New
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Kevin Wolf June 3, 2014, 1:11 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>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 block/mirror.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Benoît Canet June 3, 2014, 3:24 p.m. UTC | #1
The Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 à 15:11:01 (+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>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/mirror.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
> index 94c8661..07417d7 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);
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
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diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
index 94c8661..07417d7 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);