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authorGao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>2019-10-31 17:23:15 +0800
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2019-11-14 22:19:11 -0500
commit5500221ea1b72c550b61f88fe3e8afbb08445989 (patch)
treeabff9db3e85a302c51438e7b1ff83c5054a3d229 /fs/ext4/readpage.c
parentebc11f7b1f2a016a99796b0923d9c0d7b7f9cba6 (diff)
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ext4: bio_alloc with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM never fails
Similar to [1] [2], bio_alloc with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM flags
guarantees bio allocation under some given restrictions, as
stated in block/bio.c and fs/direct-io.c So here it's ok to
not check for NULL value from bio_alloc().

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191030035518.65477-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830162812.GA10694@infradead.org
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031092315.139267-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/readpage.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/readpage.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/readpage.c b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
index a30b203fa461..fef7755300c3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/readpage.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
@@ -360,10 +360,12 @@ int ext4_mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		if (bio == NULL) {
 			struct bio_post_read_ctx *ctx;
 
+			/*
+			 * bio_alloc will _always_ be able to allocate a bio if
+			 * __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is set, see bio_alloc_bioset().
+			 */
 			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL,
 				min_t(int, nr_pages, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
-			if (!bio)
-				goto set_error_page;
 			ctx = get_bio_post_read_ctx(inode, bio, page->index);
 			if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
 				bio_put(bio);