On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:20:12PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Improvement idea by Marcin Jabrzyk.
> 
> comp_algorithm_store() silently accepts any supplied algorithm
> name, because zram performs algorithm availability check later,
> during the device configuration phase in disksize_store() and
> emits the following error:
>   "zram: Cannot initialise %s compressing backend"
> 
> this error line is somewhat generic and, besides, can indicate
> a failed attempt to allocate compression backend's working
> buffers.
> 
> add algorithm availability check to comp_algorithm_store():
> 
>   echo lzz > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
>   -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Marcin Jabrzyk <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>

Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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