From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49963 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755197AbbHNQtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:49:18 -0400 Subject: Patch "new helper: dentry_free()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, nab@linux-iscsi.org Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:49:18 -0700 Message-ID: <1439570958189223@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled new helper: dentry_free() to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: new-helper-dentry_free.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From b4f0354e968f5fabd39bc85b99fedae4a97589fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:40:14 -0400 Subject: new helper: dentry_free() From: Al Viro commit b4f0354e968f5fabd39bc85b99fedae4a97589fe upstream. The part of old d_free() that dealt with actual freeing of dentry. Taken out of dentry_kill() into a separate function. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/dcache.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -244,6 +244,15 @@ static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *he kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); } +static void dentry_free(struct dentry *dentry) +{ + /* if dentry was never visible to RCU, immediate free is OK */ + if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS)) + __d_free(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu); + else + call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free); +} + /** * dentry_rcuwalk_barrier - invalidate in-progress rcu-walk lookups * @dentry: the target dentry @@ -511,11 +520,7 @@ relock: if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_release) dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry); - /* if dentry was never visible to RCU, immediate free is OK */ - if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS)) - __d_free(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu); - else - call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free); + dentry_free(dentry); return parent; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are queue-3.14/new-helper-dentry_free.patch queue-3.14/fold-try_prune_one_dentry.patch queue-3.14/fold-d_kill-and-d_free.patch queue-3.14/ipc-modify-message-queue-accounting-to-not-take-kernel-data-structures-into-account.patch queue-3.14/sg_start_req-make-sure-that-there-s-not-too-many-elements-in-iovec.patch