vmscan: fix shrinker callback bug in fs/super.c

commit 09f363c upstream.

The callback must not return -1 when nr_to_scan is zero. Fix the bug in
fs/super.c and add this requirement to the callback specification.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

fs/super.c

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int prune_super(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		return -1;
 
 	if (!grab_super_passive(sb))
-		return -1;
+		return !sc->nr_to_scan ? 0 : -1;
 
 	if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects)
 		fs_objects = sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects(sb);

include/linux/shrinker.h

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct shrink_control {
  * 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up.  It should return
  * the number of objects which remain in the cache.  If it returns -1, it means
  * it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
+ * The callback must not return -1 if nr_to_scan is zero.
  *
  * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
  * fulfil.