cifs: allocate buffer in the caller of build_path_from_dentry()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 5 Mar 2021 22:36:04 +0000 (17:36 -0500)
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:28:23 +0000 (16:28 -0500)
commitf6a9bc336b600e1266e6eebb0972d75d5b93aea9
tree62432d7b429006e2cdab9e9750565eec9e868fd9
parent8e33cf20ceb7f6d7a7e039f9f82a0cd1f3a6f964
cifs: allocate buffer in the caller of build_path_from_dentry()

build_path_from_dentry() open-codes dentry_path_raw().  The reason
we can't use dentry_path_raw() in there (and postprocess the
result as needed) is that the callers of build_path_from_dentry()
expect that the object to be freed on cleanup and the string to
be used are at the same address.  That's painful, since the path
is naturally built end-to-beginning - we start at the leaf and
go through the ancestors, accumulating the pathname.

Life would be easier if we left the buffer allocation to callers.
It wouldn't be exact-sized buffer, but none of the callers keep
the result for long - it's always freed before the caller returns.
So there's no need to do exact-sized allocation; better use
__getname()/__putname(), same as we do for pathname arguments
of syscalls.  What's more, there's no need to do allocation under
spinlocks, so GFP_ATOMIC is not needed.

Next patch will replace the open-coded dentry_path_raw() (in
build_path_from_dentry_optional_prefix()) with calling the real
thing.  This patch only introduces wrappers for allocating/freeing
the buffers and switches to new calling conventions:
build_path_from_dentry(dentry, buf)
expects buf to be address of a page-sized object or NULL,
return value is a pathname built inside that buffer on success,
ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) if buf is NULL and ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG) if
the pathname won't fit into page.  Note that we don't need to
check for failure when allocating the buffer in the caller -
build_path_from_dentry() will do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
fs/cifs/dir.c
fs/cifs/file.c
fs/cifs/inode.c
fs/cifs/ioctl.c
fs/cifs/link.c
fs/cifs/readdir.c
fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
fs/cifs/xattr.c