[PATCH 1/4] fs: introduce __getname_gfp()

[Vegard Nossum]

The purpose of this change is to allow __getname() users to pass a
custom GFP mask to kmem_cache_alloc(). This is needed for annotating
a certain kmemcheck false positive.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/fs.h |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 5bed436..e45ad64 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1924,8 +1924,9 @@ extern void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long);
 
 extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep;
 
-#define __getname()	kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
-#define __putname(name) kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, (void *)(name))
+#define __getname_gfp(gfp)	kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, (gfp))
+#define __getname()		__getname_gfp(GFP_KERNEL)
+#define __putname(name)		kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, (void *)(name))
 #ifndef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
 #define putname(name)   __putname(name)
 #else
-- 
1.6.0.6

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