[RFC PATCH v2 14/18] struct filename: use names_cachep only for getname() and friends

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

        Instances of struct filename come from names_cachep (via
__getname()).  That is done by getname_flags() and getname_kernel()
and these two are the main callers of __getname().  However, there are
other callers that simply want to allocate PATH_MAX bytes for uses that
have nothing to do with struct filename.

	We want saner allocation rules for long pathnames, so that struct
filename would *always* come from names_cachep, with the out-of-line
pathname getting kmalloc'ed.  For that we need to be able to change the
size of objects allocated by getname_flags()/getname_kernel().

	That requires the rest of __getname() users to stop using
names_cachep; we could explicitly switch all of those to kmalloc(),
but that would cause quite a bit of noise.  So the plan is to switch
getname_...() to new helpers and turn __getname() into a wrapper for
kmalloc().  Remaining __getname() users could be converted to explicit
kmalloc() at leisure, hopefully along with figuring out what size do
they really want - PATH_MAX is an overkill for some of them, used out
of laziness ("we have a convenient helper that does 4K allocations and
that's large enough, let's use it").

	As a side benefit, names_cachep is no longer used outside
of fs/namei.c, so we can move it there and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/dcache.c        |  8 +-------
 fs/internal.h      |  2 ++
 fs/namei.c         | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 include/linux/fs.h |  6 ++----
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 035cccbc9276..761283f13200 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3246,10 +3246,6 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
 	runtime_const_init(ptr, dentry_hashtable);
 }
 
-/* SLAB cache for __getname() consumers */
-struct kmem_cache *names_cachep __ro_after_init;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(names_cachep);
-
 void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -3263,9 +3259,7 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
 
 void __init vfs_caches_init(void)
 {
-	names_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
-			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, 0, PATH_MAX, NULL);
-
+	filename_init();
 	dcache_init();
 	inode_init();
 	files_init();
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 9b2b4d116880..e16e72b246c2 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ int vfs_tmpfile(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		struct file *file, umode_t mode);
 struct dentry *d_hash_and_lookup(struct dentry *, struct qstr *);
 
+void __init filename_init(void);
+
 /*
  * namespace.c
  */
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 62e992e4f152..cf7d8608ce4e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -125,6 +125,25 @@
 
 #define EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX	(PATH_MAX - offsetof(struct filename, iname))
 
+/* SLAB cache for struct filename instances */
+static struct kmem_cache *names_cachep __ro_after_init;
+
+void __init filename_init(void)
+{
+	names_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
+			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, 0, PATH_MAX, NULL);
+}
+
+static inline struct filename *alloc_filename(void)
+{
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+static inline void free_filename(struct filename *p)
+{
+	kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, p);
+}
+
 static inline void initname(struct filename *name)
 {
 	name->aname = NULL;
@@ -164,7 +183,7 @@ getname_flags(const char __user *filename, int flags)
 	char *kname;
 	int len;
 
-	result = __getname();
+	result = alloc_filename();
 	if (unlikely(!result))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -181,13 +200,13 @@ getname_flags(const char __user *filename, int flags)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(len <= 0)) {
 		if (unlikely(len < 0)) {
-			__putname(result);
+			free_filename(result);
 			return ERR_PTR(len);
 		}
 
 		/* The empty path is special. */
 		if (!(flags & LOOKUP_EMPTY)) {
-			__putname(result);
+			free_filename(result);
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 		}
 	}
@@ -201,7 +220,7 @@ getname_flags(const char __user *filename, int flags)
 	if (unlikely(len == EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX)) {
 		struct filename *p = getname_long(result, filename);
 		if (IS_ERR(p)) {
-			__putname(result);
+			free_filename(result);
 			return p;
 		}
 		result = p;
@@ -242,7 +261,7 @@ struct filename *getname_kernel(const char * filename)
 	struct filename *result;
 	int len = strlen(filename) + 1;
 
-	result = __getname();
+	result = alloc_filename();
 	if (unlikely(!result))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -254,13 +273,13 @@ struct filename *getname_kernel(const char * filename)
 
 		tmp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (unlikely(!tmp)) {
-			__putname(result);
+			free_filename(result);
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		}
 		tmp->name = (char *)result;
 		result = tmp;
 	} else {
-		__putname(result);
+		free_filename(result);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 	}
 	memcpy((char *)result->name, filename, len);
@@ -287,10 +306,10 @@ void putname(struct filename *name)
 	}
 
 	if (name->name != name->iname) {
-		__putname(name->name);
+		free_filename((struct filename *)name->name);
 		kfree(name);
 	} else
-		__putname(name);
+		free_filename(name);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(putname);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index bbae3cfdc338..59c5c67985ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2957,10 +2957,8 @@ static inline int finish_open_simple(struct file *file, int error)
 extern void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void);
 extern void __init vfs_caches_init(void);
 
-extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep;
-
-#define __getname()		kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
-#define __putname(name)		kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, (void *)(name))
+#define __getname()		kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL)
+#define __putname(name)		kfree(name)
 
 extern struct super_block *blockdev_superblock;
 static inline bool sb_is_blkdev_sb(struct super_block *sb)
-- 
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