NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_link()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c
index 1c5bfb3d6f08..982a81bb7257 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c
@@ -468,30 +468,32 @@ out:
 static int
 nfs3_proc_link(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, struct qstr *name)
 {
-        struct nfs_fattr        dir_attr, fattr;
         struct nfs3_linkargs    arg = {
                 .fromfh         = NFS_FH(inode),
                 .tofh           = NFS_FH(dir),
                 .toname         = name->name,
                 .tolen          = name->len
         };
-        struct nfs3_linkres     res = {
-                .dir_attr       = &dir_attr,
-                .fattr          = &fattr
-        };
+        struct nfs3_linkres     res;
         struct rpc_message msg = {
                 .rpc_proc       = &nfs3_procedures[NFS3PROC_LINK],
                 .rpc_argp       = &arg,
                 .rpc_resp       = &res,
         };
-        int                     status;
+        int status = -ENOMEM;
 
         dprintk("NFS call  link %s\n", name->name);
-        nfs_fattr_init(&dir_attr);
-        nfs_fattr_init(&fattr);
+        res.fattr = nfs_alloc_fattr();
+        res.dir_attr = nfs_alloc_fattr();
+        if (res.fattr == NULL || res.dir_attr == NULL)
+                goto out;
+
         status = rpc_call_sync(NFS_CLIENT(inode), &msg, 0);
-        nfs_post_op_update_inode(dir, &dir_attr);
-        nfs_post_op_update_inode(inode, &fattr);
+        nfs_post_op_update_inode(dir, res.dir_attr);
+        nfs_post_op_update_inode(inode, res.fattr);
+out:
+        nfs_free_fattr(res.dir_attr);
+        nfs_free_fattr(res.fattr);
         dprintk("NFS reply link: %d\n", status);
         return status;
 }