linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] quota: Check for register

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Message-ID: <20171129154833.GA28256@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:48:33 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: Check for register_shrinker() failure.

On Wed 29-11-17 14:42:51, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 29-11-17 22:34:50, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > register_shrinker() might return -ENOMEM error since Linux 3.12.
> > Call panic() as with other failure checks in this function if
> > register_shrinker() failed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> 
> Fixes: 1d3d4437eae1 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work")
> 
> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> From my very limited understanding of the code this looks correct.
> FWIW
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Thanks. Added to my tree.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR