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If try_to_free_buffers() succeeded and then folio_alloc_buffers() failed, grow_dev_folio() would return success. This would be incorrect; memory allocation failure is supposed to result in a failure. It's a harmless bug; the caller will simply go around the loop one more time and grow_dev_folio() will correctly return a failure that time. But it was an unintended change and looks like a more serious bug than it is. While I'm in here, improve the commentary about why we return success even though we failed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240101093848.2017115-1-willy@infradead.org Fixes: 6d840a18773f ("buffer: return bool from grow_dev_folio()") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reported-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.