NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_revalidate_inode()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
chewitt · May 14, 2010 · a3cba2a · a3cba2a
1 parent c407d41
commit a3cba2a
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ int
 __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode)
 {
 	int		 status = -ESTALE;
-	struct nfs_fattr fattr;
+	struct nfs_fattr *fattr = NULL;
 	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
 
 	dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: revalidating (%s/%Ld)\n",
@@ -693,8 +693,13 @@ __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode)
 	if (NFS_STALE(inode))
 		goto out;
 
+	status = -ENOMEM;
+	fattr = nfs_alloc_fattr();
+	if (fattr == NULL)
+		goto out;
+
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_INODEREVALIDATE);
-	status = NFS_PROTO(inode)->getattr(server, NFS_FH(inode), &fattr);
+	status = NFS_PROTO(inode)->getattr(server, NFS_FH(inode), fattr);
 	if (status != 0) {
 		dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "nfs_revalidate_inode: (%s/%Ld) getattr failed, error=%d\n",
 			 inode->i_sb->s_id,
@@ -707,7 +712,7 @@ __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	status = nfs_refresh_inode(inode, &fattr);
+	status = nfs_refresh_inode(inode, fattr);
 	if (status) {
 		dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "nfs_revalidate_inode: (%s/%Ld) refresh failed, error=%d\n",
 			 inode->i_sb->s_id,
@@ -723,6 +728,7 @@ __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode)
 		(long long)NFS_FILEID(inode));
 
  out:
+	nfs_free_fattr(fattr);
 	return status;
 }