The leading comment above alloc_inode_sb() is pretty explicit about it:
/*
* This must be used for allocating filesystems specific inodes to set
* up the inode reclaim context correctly.
*/
Switch tracefs over to alloc_inode_sb() to make sure inodes are properly
linked.
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.ka...@broadcom.com>
Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: ba37ff75e04b ("eventfs: Implement tracefs_inode_cache")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mini...@grsecurity.net>
---
fs/tracefs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index 7c29f4afc23d..a9279810158c 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static struct inode *tracefs_alloc_inode(struct super_block
*sb)
struct tracefs_inode *ti;
unsigned long flags;
- ti = kmem_cache_alloc(tracefs_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ti = alloc_inode_sb(sb, tracefs_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ti)
return NULL;
--
2.43.0
