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 iscsi block driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <ben...@irqsave.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> --- block/iscsi.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/iscsi.c b/block/iscsi.c index 84aa22a..06afa78 100644 --- a/block/iscsi.c +++ b/block/iscsi.c @@ -893,7 +893,10 @@ coroutine_fn iscsi_co_write_zeroes(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num, nb_blocks = sector_qemu2lun(nb_sectors, iscsilun); if (iscsilun->zeroblock == NULL) { - iscsilun->zeroblock = g_malloc0(iscsilun->block_size); + iscsilun->zeroblock = g_try_malloc0(iscsilun->block_size); + if (iscsilun->zeroblock == NULL) { + return -ENOMEM; + } } iscsi_co_init_iscsitask(iscsilun, &iTask); -- 1.8.3.1