From: Alexey Dobriyan First, SLAB_PANIC is unjustified. Second, all error propagating and backing out is in place. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/gfs2/main.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/gfs2/main.c~gfs2-dont-panic-needlessly fs/gfs2/main.c --- a/fs/gfs2/main.c~gfs2-dont-panic-needlessly +++ a/fs/gfs2/main.c @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ static int __init init_gfs2_fs(void) gfs2_inode_cachep = kmem_cache_create("gfs2_inode", sizeof(struct gfs2_inode), - 0, (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT| - SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD), + 0, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT| + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, gfs2_init_inode_once, NULL); if (!gfs2_inode_cachep) goto fail; _