[PATCH 0/2] cache: fix cache logic not go into invalid state
HATAYAMA Daisuke
d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Wed Sep 18 20:53:37 EDT 2013
Hello Kumagai-san,
Could you review these patches?
(2013/09/17 15:29), HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> I faced failure of sadump phys_base calculation and found a bug in
> cache.c causes it. Due to the bug, cache_alloc() returns NULL forever
> throughout execution. The fix is the 2nd patch. During the
> investigation I also found a lack of malloc() allocation failure
> check. The fix is the 1st patch. Primary is the 2nd one.
>
> I built this patch set on top of devel branch.
>
> ---
>
> HATAYAMA Daisuke (2):
> cache: allocate buffers at initialization to detect malloc() failure
> cache: reuse entry in pending list
>
>
> cache.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> cache.h | 1 +
> makedumpfile.c | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
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Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke
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