linux-ext4 - Re: mbcache: fix to detect failure of register

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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:31:17 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     jack@...e.cz, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: mbcache: fix to detect failure of register_shrinker

On 2016/7/6 4:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:16:38PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
>>
>> register_shrinker in mb_cache_create may fail due to no memory. This
>> patch fixes to do the check of return value of register_shrinker and
>> handle the error case, otherwise mb_cache_create may return with no
>> error, but losing the inner shrinker.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> 
> Applied, thanks.  (Apologies for the delay; this patch slipped through
> the cracks.)

Ping, didn't see it in mainline, is this patch still under testing now?

> 
> 					- Ted
> 
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