Commit 827c4913 authored by Christian Borntraeger's avatar Christian Borntraeger Committed by Heiko Carstens

s390/debug: avoid kernel warning on too large number of pages

When specifying insanely large debug buffers a kernel warning is
printed. The debug code does handle the error gracefully, though.
Instead of duplicating the check let us silence the warning to
avoid crashes when panic_on_warn is used.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
parent 998f5bbe
......@@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ static debug_entry_t ***debug_areas_alloc(int pages_per_area, int nr_areas)
if (!areas)
goto fail_malloc_areas;
for (i = 0; i < nr_areas; i++) {
/* GFP_NOWARN to avoid user triggerable WARN, we handle fails */
areas[i] = kmalloc_array(pages_per_area,
sizeof(debug_entry_t *),
GFP_KERNEL);
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!areas[i])
goto fail_malloc_areas2;
for (j = 0; j < pages_per_area; j++) {
......
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