From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36804 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbeBBRGg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2018 12:06:36 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa , Jan Kara , Michal Hocko , Jan Kara , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 51/86] quota: Check for register_shrinker() failure. Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:58:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20180202140826.948824042@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180202140822.679101338@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180202140822.679101338@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa [ Upstream commit 88bc0ede8d35edc969350852894dc864a2dc1859 ] register_shrinker() might return -ENOMEM error since Linux 3.12. Call panic() as with other failure checks in this function if register_shrinker() failed. Fixes: 1d3d4437eae1 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/quota/dquot.c +++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c @@ -2985,7 +2985,8 @@ static int __init dquot_init(void) pr_info("VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: %ld (order %ld," " %ld bytes)\n", nr_hash, order, (PAGE_SIZE << order)); - register_shrinker(&dqcache_shrinker); + if (register_shrinker(&dqcache_shrinker)) + panic("Cannot register dquot shrinker"); return 0; }