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These are\nborrowed from server struct and are not sufficient for large-sized\nquery dir operations.\n\nWith this change we will now define a new buffer type specifically\nfor cifs_search_info to hold variable sized responses. These will\nbe allocated by kmalloc and freed by kfree.\n\nSigned-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>\n---\n fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 2 ++\n fs/smb/client/file.c | 2 ++\n fs/smb/client/readdir.c | 2 ++\n fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c | 14 +++++++++++---\n 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)", "diff": "diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h\nindex 709e96e077916..8d089ba08e3e5 100644\n--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h\n+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h\n@@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ struct cifs_search_info {\n \tbool emptyDir:1;\n \tbool unicode:1;\n \tbool smallBuf:1; /* so we know which buf_release function to call */\n+\tbool is_dynamic_buf:1; /* dynamically allocated buffer - can be variable size */\n };\n \n #define ACL_NO_MODE\t((umode_t)(-1))\n@@ -1907,6 +1908,7 @@ enum cifs_find_flags {\n #define CIFS_NO_BUFFER 0 /* Response buffer not returned */\n #define CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER 1\n #define CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER 2\n+#define CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER 3 /* Dynamically allocated buffer */\n #define CIFS_IOVEC 4 /* array of response buffers */\n \n /* Type of Request to SendReceive2 */\ndiff --git a/fs/smb/client/file.c b/fs/smb/client/file.c\nindex a69e05f86d7e2..6a1419d59ed5a 100644\n--- a/fs/smb/client/file.c\n+++ b/fs/smb/client/file.c\n@@ -1546,6 +1546,8 @@ int cifs_closedir(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)\n \t\tcfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start = NULL;\n \t\tif (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)\n \t\t\tcifs_small_buf_release(buf);\n+\t\telse if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)\n+\t\t\tkfree(buf);\n \t\telse\n \t\t\tcifs_buf_release(buf);\n \t}\ndiff --git a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c\nindex be22bbc4a65a0..b50efd9b9e1d2 100644\n--- a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c\n+++ b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c\n@@ -732,6 +732,8 @@ find_cifs_entry(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, loff_t pos,\n \t\t\tif (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)\n \t\t\t\tcifs_small_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.\n \t\t\t\t\t\tntwrk_buf_start);\n+\t\t\telse if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)\n+\t\t\t\tkfree(cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start);\n \t\t\telse\n \t\t\t\tcifs_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.\n \t\t\t\t\t\tntwrk_buf_start);\ndiff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c\nindex 5188218c25be4..49dca84b169e6 100644\n--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c\n+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c\n@@ -5625,6 +5625,8 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,\n \tif (srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start) {\n \t\tif (srch_inf->smallBuf)\n \t\t\tcifs_small_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);\n+\t\telse if (srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf)\n+\t\t\tkfree(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);\n \t\telse\n \t\t\tcifs_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);\n \t}\n@@ -5644,12 +5646,18 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,\n \tcifs_dbg(FYI, \"num entries %d last_index %lld srch start %p srch end %p\\n\",\n \t\t srch_inf->entries_in_buffer, srch_inf->index_of_last_entry,\n \t\t srch_inf->srch_entries_start, srch_inf->last_entry);\n-\tif (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER)\n+\tif (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER) {\n \t\tsrch_inf->smallBuf = false;\n-\telse if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER)\n+\t\tsrch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;\n+\t} else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER) {\n \t\tsrch_inf->smallBuf = true;\n-\telse\n+\t\tsrch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;\n+\t} else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER) {\n+\t\tsrch_inf->smallBuf = false;\n+\t\tsrch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = true;\n+\t} else {\n \t\tcifs_tcon_dbg(VFS, \"Invalid search buffer type\\n\");\n+\t}\n \n \treturn 0;\n }\n", "prefixes": [ "4/7" ] }