linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 035/254] quota: Check for register

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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:20:18 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Jan Kara" <jack@...e.com>,
        "Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 035/254] quota: Check for register_shrinker() failure.

3.16.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>

commit 88bc0ede8d35edc969350852894dc864a2dc1859 upstream.

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@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -2747,7 +2747,8 @@ 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;
 }