There is no need to panic when the posix-timer kmem_cache can't be
created. timer_create() will fail with -ENOMEM and that's it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
V2: New patch
---
kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -243,9 +243,8 @@ static int posix_get_hrtimer_res(clockid
static __init int init_posix_timers(void)
{
- posix_timers_cache = kmem_cache_create("posix_timers_cache",
- sizeof(struct k_itimer), 0,
- SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
+ posix_timers_cache = kmem_cache_create("posix_timers_cache", sizeof(struct k_itimer), 0,
+ SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
return 0;
}
__initcall(init_posix_timers);
@@ -371,8 +370,12 @@ static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigeven
static struct k_itimer *alloc_posix_timer(void)
{
- struct k_itimer *tmr = kmem_cache_zalloc(posix_timers_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct k_itimer *tmr;
+ if (unlikely(!posix_timers_cache))
+ return NULL;
+
+ tmr = kmem_cache_zalloc(posix_timers_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tmr)
return tmr;