On Thu 23-11-17 16:02:11, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 23-11-17 14:55:40, Al Viro wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:35:37PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Hopefully less screwed version. But as I've said I am not really > > > familiar with the code and do not feel competent to change it so please > > > be very careful here. I've moved the shrinker registration to > > > alloc_super which turned out to be simpler. > > > > I don't get it. Why the hell do we need all that PITA in the first place? > > Just make sget_userns() end with > > if (unlikely(regsiter_shrinker(&s->s_shrink) != 0)) { > > deactivate_locked_super(s); > > s = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > > } > > return s; > > and be done with that. All there is to it... > > Who is going to unregister that shrinker on other failure paths? Scratch that. I've mixed destroy_unused_super with deactivate_locked_super. Go with whatever works... -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs