From 798434bda36e357af9ccaf68a7ba1129658c8332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:38:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] __d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1) Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/dcache.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 32ceae3e6112..3cb98dfd9f96 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1558,7 +1558,11 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) * be overwriting an internal NUL character */ dentry->d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1] = 0; - if (name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) { + if (unlikely(!name)) { + static const struct qstr anon = QSTR_INIT("/", 1); + name = &anon; + dname = dentry->d_iname; + } else if (name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) { size_t size = offsetof(struct external_name, name[1]); struct external_name *p = kmalloc(size + name->len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); @@ -1812,9 +1816,7 @@ struct dentry *d_make_root(struct inode *root_inode) struct dentry *res = NULL; if (root_inode) { - static const struct qstr name = QSTR_INIT("/", 1); - - res = __d_alloc(root_inode->i_sb, &name); + res = __d_alloc(root_inode->i_sb, NULL); if (res) d_instantiate(res, root_inode); else @@ -1855,7 +1857,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_find_any_alias); static struct dentry *__d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode, int disconnected) { - static const struct qstr anonstring = QSTR_INIT("/", 1); struct dentry *tmp; struct dentry *res; unsigned add_flags; @@ -1869,7 +1870,7 @@ static struct dentry *__d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode, int disconnected) if (res) goto out_iput; - tmp = __d_alloc(inode->i_sb, &anonstring); + tmp = __d_alloc(inode->i_sb, NULL); if (!tmp) { res = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto out_iput; -- GitLab