From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58708 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932383AbeB1PVu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:21:50 -0500 Subject: Patch "sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:21:00 +0100 Message-ID: <151983126024724@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sget-handle-failures-of-register_shrinker.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:19:30 CET 2018 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:05:07 -0500 Subject: sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker() From: Al Viro [ Upstream commit 9ee332d99e4d5a97548943b81c54668450ce641b ] Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/super.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -497,7 +497,11 @@ retry: hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &type->fs_supers); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); get_filesystem(type); - register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink); + err = register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink); + if (err) { + deactivate_locked_super(s); + s = ERR_PTR(err); + } return s; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are queue-4.4/sget-handle-failures-of-register_shrinker.patch