This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: sget-handle-failures-of-register_shrinker.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:16:23 CET 2018

From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:05:07 -0500 Subject: sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()

From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk

[ Upstream commit 9ee332d99e4d5a97548943b81c54668450ce641b ]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/super.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -476,7 +476,11 @@ retry: hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &type->fs_supers); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); get_filesystem(type); - register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink); + err = register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink); + if (err) { + deactivate_locked_super(s); + s = ERR_PTR(err); + } return s; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are

queue-3.18/sget-handle-failures-of-register_shrinker.patch