4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Al Viro <[email protected]> commit 3ed47db34f480df7caf44436e3e63e555351ae9a upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 5 +---- mm/shmem.c | 9 ++++----- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h @@ -15,10 +15,7 @@ struct shmem_inode_info { unsigned int seals; /* shmem seals */ unsigned long flags; unsigned long alloced; /* data pages alloced to file */ - union { - unsigned long swapped; /* subtotal assigned to swap */ - char *symlink; /* unswappable short symlink */ - }; + unsigned long swapped; /* subtotal assigned to swap */ struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */ struct list_head swaplist; /* chain of maybes on swap */ struct simple_xattrs xattrs; /* list of xattrs */ --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -620,8 +620,7 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct ino list_del_init(&info->swaplist); mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex); } - } else - kfree(info->symlink); + } simple_xattrs_free(&info->xattrs); WARN_ON(inode->i_blocks); @@ -2462,13 +2461,12 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct inode *d info = SHMEM_I(inode); inode->i_size = len-1; if (len <= SHORT_SYMLINK_LEN) { - info->symlink = kmemdup(symname, len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!info->symlink) { + inode->i_link = kmemdup(symname, len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!inode->i_link) { iput(inode); return -ENOMEM; } inode->i_op = &shmem_short_symlink_operations; - inode->i_link = info->symlink; } else { error = shmem_getpage(inode, 0, &page, SGP_WRITE, NULL); if (error) { @@ -3083,6 +3081,7 @@ static struct inode *shmem_alloc_inode(s static void shmem_destroy_callback(struct rcu_head *head) { struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu); + kfree(inode->i_link); kmem_cache_free(shmem_inode_cachep, SHMEM_I(inode)); }
