Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755023AbZDNLKU (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:10:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752335AbZDNLKB (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:10:01 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51607 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbZDNLKB (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:10:01 -0400 From: Nikanth Karthikesan Organization: Novell Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Handle bio_alloc failure Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:36:25 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.27.21-0.1-default; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline To: Jens Axboe Cc: Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason , Andrew Morton , Dave Kleikamp , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200904141636.26557.knikanth@novell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 456 Lines: 14 Hi Jens Some of the callers of bio_alloc() assume that it will never fail and always return bios. But it can fail. This patch set changes those callers to take action when bio_alloc() fails. Thanks Nikanth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/