This patch avoids the memory alloc & free path when depth is 0,
since anyway there is no extra caching done in that case.
So on checking depth 0, simply return early.
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index ee83fe7c98aa..0de548bb3c90 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -594,6 +594,12 @@ int ext4_ext_precache(struct inode *inode)
down_read(&ei->i_data_sem);
depth = ext_depth(inode);
+ /* Don't cache anything if there are no external extent blocks */
+ if (!depth) {
+ up_read(&ei->i_data_sem);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
path = kcalloc(depth + 1, sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path),
GFP_NOFS);
if (path == NULL) {
@@ -601,9 +607,6 @@ int ext4_ext_precache(struct inode *inode)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- /* Don't cache anything if there are no external extent blocks */
- if (depth == 0)
- goto out;
path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);
ret = ext4_ext_check(inode, path[0].p_hdr, depth, 0);
if (ret)
--
2.21.0
