The only fields that we have to watch out for are the dentry and vfsmount.
Additionally, this makes Unionfs gentler on the stack as nameidata is rather
large.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
---
fs/unionfs/inode.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/unionfs/inode.c b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
index 3b4a388..1b2e8a8 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
@@ -191,15 +191,25 @@ static struct dentry *unionfs_lookup(struct inode *parent,
struct dentry *dentry,
struct nameidata *nd)
{
- struct nameidata lowernd; /* TODO: be gentler to the stack */
+ struct path path_save;
+ struct dentry *ret;
- if (nd)
- memcpy(&lowernd, nd, sizeof(struct nameidata));
- else
- memset(&lowernd, 0, sizeof(struct nameidata));
+ /* save the dentry & vfsmnt from namei */
+ if (nd) {
+ path_save.dentry = nd->dentry;
+ path_save.mnt = nd->mnt;
+ }
/* The locking is done by unionfs_lookup_backend. */
- return unionfs_lookup_backend(dentry, &lowernd, INTERPOSE_LOOKUP);
+ ret = unionfs_lookup_backend(dentry, nd, INTERPOSE_LOOKUP);
+
+ /* restore the dentry & vfsmnt in namei */
+ if (nd) {
+ nd->dentry = path_save.dentry;
+ nd->mnt = path_save.mnt;
+ }
+
+ return ret;
}
static int unionfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
--
1.5.0.rc1.g5355
-
