register_shrinker can fail after commit 1d3d4437eae1 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work"), we should detect the failure of it, otherwise we may fail to register shrinker after raid5 configuration was setup successfully. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 766c3b7..b819a9a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -6632,7 +6632,12 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev) conf->shrinker.count_objects = raid5_cache_count; conf->shrinker.batch = 128; conf->shrinker.flags = 0; - register_shrinker(&conf->shrinker); + if (register_shrinker(&conf->shrinker)) { + printk(KERN_ERR + "md/raid:%s: couldn't register shrinker.\n", + mdname(mddev)); + goto abort; + } sprintf(pers_name, "raid%d", mddev->new_level); conf->thread = md_register_thread(raid5d, mddev, pers_name); -- 2.7.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html