[PATCH v2 19/21] treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Jan 21 19:39:40 AEDT 2019


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:06 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> Add check for the return value of memblock_alloc*() functions and call
> panic() in case of error.
> The panic message repeats the one used by panicing memblock allocators with
> adjustment of parameters to include only relevant ones.
>
> The replacement was mostly automated with semantic patches like the one
> below with manual massaging of format strings.
>
> @@
> expression ptr, size, align;
> @@
> ptr = memblock_alloc(size, align);
> + if (!ptr)
> +       panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%lx\n", __func__,
> size, align);
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>

>  arch/m68k/atari/stram.c                   |  4 ++++
>  arch/m68k/mm/init.c                       |  3 +++
>  arch/m68k/mm/mcfmmu.c                     |  6 ++++++
>  arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c                   |  9 +++++++++
>  arch/m68k/mm/sun3mmu.c                    |  6 ++++++
>  arch/m68k/sun3/sun3dvma.c                 |  3 +++

For m68k:
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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