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>
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