Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle out-of-memory situations gracefully.
This patch addresses the allocations in the vpc block driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- block/vpc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/vpc.c b/block/vpc.c index 2e25f57..a6346bb 100644 --- a/block/vpc.c +++ b/block/vpc.c @@ -269,7 +269,11 @@ static int vpc_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags, goto fail; } - s->pagetable = qemu_blockalign(bs, s->max_table_entries * 4); + s->pagetable = qemu_try_blockalign(bs, s->max_table_entries * 4); + if (s->pagetable == NULL) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto fail; + } s->bat_offset = be64_to_cpu(dyndisk_header->table_offset); -- 1.8.3.1