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A WARN_ON() does not stop execution, so allocation failure would still dereference NULL. The lock storage is required for kernfs to operate. Use a nofail GFP_KERNEL allocation so the init path does not continue without the required object. Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang --- fs/kernfs/mount.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c index 6e3217b6e4811..6cf8e71e5bd08 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c @@ -451,8 +451,8 @@ static void __init kernfs_mutex_init(void) static void __init kernfs_lock_init(void) { - kernfs_locks = kmalloc_obj(struct kernfs_global_locks); - WARN_ON(!kernfs_locks); + kernfs_locks = kmalloc_obj(struct kernfs_global_locks, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL); kernfs_mutex_init(); } -- 2.51.0