linux-kernel - [PATCH] raid5: fix to detect failure of register

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:33:57 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     <shli@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <chao@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] raid5: fix to detect failure of register_shrinker

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@...wei.com>
---
 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