From: Patrick Ho <Patrick.Ho@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1d625050c7c2dd877e108e382b8aaf1ae3cfe1f4 upstream. init_nfsd() should not unregister pernet subsys if the register fails but should instead unwind from the last successful operation which is register_filesystem(). Unregistering a failed register_pernet_subsys() call can result in a kernel GPF as revealed by programmatically injecting an error in register_pernet_subsys(). Verified the fix handled failure gracefully with no lingering nfsd entry in /proc/filesystems. This change was introduced by the commit bd5ae9288d64 ("nfsd: register pernet ops last, unregister first"), the original error handling logic was correct. Fixes: bd5ae9288d64 ("nfsd: register pernet ops last, unregister first") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Patrick Ho <Patrick.Ho@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c @@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static int __init init_nfsd(void) goto out_free_all; return 0; out_free_all: - unregister_pernet_subsys(&nfsd_net_ops); + unregister_filesystem(&nfsd_fs_type); out_free_exports: remove_proc_entry("fs/nfs/exports", NULL); remove_proc_entry("fs/nfs", NULL);