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SubjectRe: [resend PATCH 0/2] fix VFS register_shrinker fixup
On Tue 19-12-17 15:34:19, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:19:15PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Dohh, I have missed resend by Tetsuo http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513596701-4518-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
> > (thanks for dropping me from the CC). Al seeemed to take the patch. We
> > still need patch 2. Al, are you going to take it from this thread or you
> > are going to go your way?
>
> Umm... git log for-linus in vfs.git since yesterday:

OK, thanks!

> commit 9ee332d99e4d5a97548943b81c54668450ce641b
> Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Mon Dec 18 15:05:07 2017 -0500
>
> sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>
> commit bb422a738f6566f7439cd347d54e321e4fe92a9f
> Author: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Date: Mon Dec 18 20:31:41 2017 +0900
>
> mm,vmscan: Make unregister_shrinker() no-op if register_shrinker() failed.
>
> Syzbot caught an oops at unregister_shrinker() because combination of
> commit 1d3d4437eae1bb29 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work") and fault
> injection made register_shrinker() fail and the caller of
> register_shrinker() did not check for failure.
> ....

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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