In order to support object migration on the dentry cache we need to have a determined object state at all times. Without a constructor the object would have a random state after allocation. Provide a dentry constructor. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 8136bda27a1f..b7318615979d 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1602,6 +1602,16 @@ void d_invalidate(struct dentry *dentry) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_invalidate); +static void dcache_ctor(void *p) +{ + struct dentry *dentry = p; + + /* Mimic lockref_mark_dead() */ + dentry->d_lockref.count = -128; + + spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock); +} + /** * __d_alloc - allocate a dcache entry * @sb: filesystem it will belong to @@ -1657,7 +1667,6 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) dentry->d_lockref.count = 1; dentry->d_flags = 0; - spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock); seqcount_init(&dentry->d_seq); dentry->d_inode = NULL; dentry->d_parent = dentry; @@ -3095,14 +3104,17 @@ static void __init dcache_init_early(void) static void __init dcache_init(void) { - /* - * A constructor could be added for stable state like the lists, - * but it is probably not worth it because of the cache nature - * of the dcache. - */ - dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(dentry, - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD|SLAB_ACCOUNT, - d_iname); + slab_flags_t flags = + SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD | SLAB_ACCOUNT; + + dentry_cache = + kmem_cache_create_usercopy("dentry", + sizeof(struct dentry), + __alignof__(struct dentry), + flags, + offsetof(struct dentry, d_iname), + sizeof_field(struct dentry, d_iname), + dcache_ctor); /* Hash may have been set up in dcache_init_early */ if (!hashdist) -- 2.21.0