struct filename: use names_cachep only for getname() and friends

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>
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Al Viro
2025-11-19 19:19:24 -05:00
parent 8f2ac84817
commit c3a3577cdb
4 changed files with 33 additions and 20 deletions

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@@ -2539,10 +2539,8 @@ 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)
void emergency_thaw_all(void);
extern int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *);