Re: [PATCH] shmem: don't call put_super() when fill_super() failed.

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:11:54AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:

> > I'm not following, since generic_shutdown_super() only calls ->put_super() if
> > ->s_root is set, which only happens at the end of shmem_fill_super().  Isn't the
> > real problem that s_shrink is registered too early, causing super_cache_count()
> > and shmem_unused_huge_count() to potentially run before shmem_fill_super() has
> > completed?  Or alternatively, the problem is that super_cache_count() doesn't
> > check for SB_ACTIVE.
> > 
> 
> Coincidentally, this is already going to be fixed by commit 79f546a696bff259
> ("fs: don't scan the inode cache before SB_BORN is set") in vfs/for-linus.

Exactly.  While we are at it, we could add

static void shmem_kill_super(struct super_block *sb)
{
        struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb);

	kill_litter_super(sb);
	if (sbinfo) {
		percpu_counter_destroy(&sbinfo->used_blocks);
		mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol);
		kfree(sbinfo);
	}
}

use that for ->kill_sb() and to hell with shmem_put_super() *and* its call in
cleanup path of shmem_fill_super() - these err = -E...; goto failed; in there
become simply return -E...;