nfsd4: remove nfs4_acl_new

This is a not-that-useful kmalloc wrapper.  And I'd like one of the
callers to actually use something other than kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
index b0cf00d3ee7d..acf6974e6823 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
@@ -161,11 +161,12 @@ nfsd4_get_nfs4_acl(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct dentry *dentry,
                         size += 2 * dpacl->a_count;
         }
 
-        *acl = nfs4_acl_new(size);
+        *acl = kmalloc(nfs4_acl_bytes(size), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (*acl == NULL) {
                 error = -ENOMEM;
                 goto out;
         }
+        (*acl)->naces = 0;
 
         _posix_to_nfsv4_one(pacl, *acl, flags & ~NFS4_ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
 
@@ -872,16 +873,13 @@ ace2type(struct nfs4_ace *ace)
         return -1;
 }
 
-struct nfs4_acl *
-nfs4_acl_new(int n)
+/*
+ * return the size of the struct nfs4_acl required to represent an acl
+ * with @entries entries.
+ */
+int nfs4_acl_bytes(int entries)
 {
-        struct nfs4_acl *acl;
-
-        acl = kmalloc(sizeof(*acl) + n*sizeof(struct nfs4_ace), GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (acl == NULL)
-                return NULL;
-        acl->naces = 0;
-        return acl;
+        return sizeof(struct nfs4_acl) + entries * sizeof(struct nfs4_ace);
 }
 
 static struct {