This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
quota: Check for register_shrinker() failure.
to the 3.18-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:
quota-check-for-register_shrinker-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 14:48:12 CET 2018
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:34:50 +0900
Subject: quota: Check for register_shrinker() failure.
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ 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 <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -2730,7 +2730,8 @@ static int __init dquot_init(void)
printk("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;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/quota-check-for-register_shrinker-failure.patch