Bjorn Helgaas 1e5ad96790 resources: when allocate_resource() fails, leave resource untouched ...

When "allocate_resource(root, new, size, ...)" fails, we currently
clobber "new".  This is inconvenient for the caller, who might care
about the original contents of the resource.

For example, when pci_bus_alloc_resource() fails, the "can't allocate
mem resource %pR" message from pci_assign_resources() currently contains
junk for the resource start/end.

This patch delays the "new" update until we're about to return success.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

2009-11-04 13:06:46 -08:00

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