Re: [PATCH] fs: handle shrinker registration failure in sget_userns
From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Nov 23 2017 - 09:47:45 EST
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:52:47PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> @@ -503,12 +504,18 @@ struct super_block *sget_userns(struct file_system_type *type,
> s = alloc_super(type, (flags & ~SB_SUBMOUNT), user_ns);
> if (!s)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + if (register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink)) {
> + spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
> + destroy_unused_super(s);
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
Have you even tested that? What the hell is that spin_unlock() doing there?