[PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias

The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all
users, and it's name is not very descriptive either.

Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode
reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL
pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations.

Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in
libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers
to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 38 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index e7a1a99b7464..46fc78206782 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1174,6 +1174,41 @@ struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *inode)
         return res;
 }
 
+/**
+ * d_obtain_alias - find or allocate a dentry for a given inode
+ * @inode: inode to allocate the dentry for
+ *
+ * Obtain a dentry for an inode resulting from NFS filehandle conversion or
+ * similar open by handle operations.  The returned dentry may be anonymous,
+ * or may have a full name (if the inode was already in the cache).
+ *
+ * When called on a directory inode, we must ensure that the inode only ever
+ * has one dentry.  If a dentry is found, that is returned instead of
+ * allocating a new one.
+ *
+ * On successful return, the reference to the inode has been transferred
+ * to the dentry.  If %NULL is returned (indicating kmalloc failure),
+ * the reference on the inode has been released.  To make it easier
+ * to use in export operations a NULL or IS_ERR inode may be passed in
+ * and will be casted to the corresponding NULL or IS_ERR dentry.
+ */
+struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode)
+{
+        struct dentry *dentry;
+
+        if (!inode)
+                return NULL;
+        if (IS_ERR(inode))
+                return ERR_CAST(inode);
+
+        dentry = d_alloc_anon(inode);
+        if (!dentry) {
+                iput(inode);
+                dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+        }
+        return dentry;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(d_obtain_alias);
 
 /**
  * d_splice_alias - splice a disconnected dentry into the tree if one exists
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 1add676a19df..74688598bcf7 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -732,28 +732,6 @@ out:
         return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * This is what d_alloc_anon should have been.  Once the exportfs
- * argument transition has been finished I will update d_alloc_anon
- * to this prototype and this wrapper will go away.   --hch
- */
-static struct dentry *exportfs_d_alloc(struct inode *inode)
-{
-        struct dentry *dentry;
-
-        if (!inode)
-                return NULL;
-        if (IS_ERR(inode))
-                return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode));
-
-        dentry = d_alloc_anon(inode);
-        if (!dentry) {
-                iput(inode);
-                dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-        }
-        return dentry;
-}
-
 /**
  * generic_fh_to_dentry - generic helper for the fh_to_dentry export operation
  * @sb:         filesystem to do the file handle conversion on
@@ -782,7 +760,7 @@ struct dentry *generic_fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
                 break;
         }
 
-        return exportfs_d_alloc(inode);
+        return d_obtain_alias(inode);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_fh_to_dentry);
 
@@ -815,7 +793,7 @@ struct dentry *generic_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
                 break;
         }
 
-        return exportfs_d_alloc(inode);
+        return d_obtain_alias(inode);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_fh_to_parent);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index efba1de629ac..2404257d6c67 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *);
 extern struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *);
 extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
 extern struct dentry * d_add_ci(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct qstr *);
+extern struct dentry * d_obtain_alias(struct inode *);
 extern void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *);
 extern void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *);
 extern void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *);