linux-kernel - [PATCH] ovl: Avoid some memory allocation

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:18:14 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     miklos@...redi.hu
Cc:     linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: Avoid some memory allocation

Reorder code to avoid allocating and then freeing some memory in an error
handling path.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
index 023bb0b03352..ba80ebb8a104 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ static int ovl_check_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, struct ovl_lookup_data *d,
 			return 0;
 		goto fail;
 	}
+	if (res == 0)
+		goto invalid;
+
 	buf = kzalloc(prelen + res + strlen(post) + 1, GFP_TEMPORARY);
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (res == 0)
-		goto invalid;
-
 	res = vfs_getxattr(dentry, OVL_XATTR_REDIRECT, buf, res);
 	if (res < 0)
 		goto fail;
-- 
2.9.3