NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structs

NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.

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

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index 07ce4609fe50..77c2ae53431c 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -356,6 +356,20 @@ extern struct nfs_open_context *nfs_find_open_context(struct inode *inode, struc
 extern u64 nfs_compat_user_ino64(u64 fileid);
 extern void nfs_fattr_init(struct nfs_fattr *fattr);
 
+extern struct nfs_fattr *nfs_alloc_fattr(void);
+
+static inline void nfs_free_fattr(const struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
+{
+        kfree(fattr);
+}
+
+extern struct nfs_fh *nfs_alloc_fhandle(void);
+
+static inline void nfs_free_fhandle(const struct nfs_fh *fh)
+{
+        kfree(fh);
+}
+
 /* linux/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c: trims ip addr off front of name, too. */
 extern __be32 root_nfs_parse_addr(char *name); /*__init*/
 extern unsigned long nfs_inc_attr_generation_counter(void);