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... Al, do you plan to push this fix? Tetsuo's unregister_shrinker fortification is already in the mmotm tree. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs