On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:42:12PM +0300, Aliaksei Karaliou wrote: > On 12/04/2017 11:40 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 07:59:07PM +0300, ak wrote: > > > Thank you for your extensive comments. > > > > > > I've also thought about adding more protection into unregister_shrinker(), > > > but not sure how to properly organize the patch set, because there will be > > > three patches: > > > * change in mm/vmscan that adds protection and sanitizer. > > > * fixed change for Lustre driver > > > * there also two explicit usages of shrinker->nr_deferred in drivers > > > - > > > good idea to fix too. > > > All patches have different lists of maintainers, and second and third > > > depend > > > on first one. And I don't like to send them separately. > > > So, I'm going to at least prepend this patch with mm/vmscan one. > > Fix the style for the Lustre patch and resend. Then patch > > unregister_shrinker(). Then remove the checks. > > > > The unregister_shrinker() changes seem like a good idea, but I haven't > > really looked at it. It might be more involved than it seems. > > > > regards, > > dan carpenter > Thanks for the comments too. > I'll send patch with accumulated fixes. > > > } > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c > > > b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c > > > index b938a3f9d50a..9e0256ca2079 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c > > > @@ -1951,7 +1951,7 @@ int lu_global_init(void) > > > * inode, one for ea. Unfortunately setting this high value > > > results in > > > * lu_object/inode cache consuming all the memory. > > > */ > > > - register_shrinker(&lu_site_shrinker); > > > + result = register_shrinker(&lu_site_shrinker); > > There should be some error handling if the register fails. > Yeah, I think so, but it seems that it is out of scope of this patch. > The whole negative branch in the mainline kernel looks broken (IMHO).
No, it's not. If you introduce new error paths, you're expected to make them clean up instead of leaking resources. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
