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-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/tnc.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/ubifs.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/xattr.c22
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/tnc.c b/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
index 709aa09..96374a3 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
@@ -2802,6 +2802,8 @@ int ubifs_tnc_remove_ino(struct ubifs_info *c, ino_t inum)
dbg_tnc("xent '%s', ino %lu", xent->name,
(unsigned long)xattr_inum);
+ ubifs_evict_xattr_inode(c, xattr_inum);
+
fname_name(&nm) = xent->name;
fname_len(&nm) = le16_to_cpu(xent->nlen);
err = ubifs_tnc_remove_nm(c, &key1, &nm);
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index aa530e8..998fb6e 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -1756,6 +1756,7 @@ int ubifs_xattr_set(struct inode *host, const char *name, const void *value,
size_t size, int flags);
ssize_t ubifs_xattr_get(struct inode *host, const char *name, void *buf,
size_t size);
+void ubifs_evict_xattr_inode(struct ubifs_info *c, ino_t xattr_inum);
#ifdef CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_SECURITY
extern int ubifs_init_security(struct inode *dentry, struct inode *inode,
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
index 6c9e62c..98f1125 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,28 @@ out_cancel:
return err;
}
+/**
+ * ubifs_evict_xattr_inode - Evict an xattr inode.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @xattr_inum: xattr inode number
+ *
+ * When an inode that hosts xattrs is being removed we have to make sure
+ * that cached inodes of the xattrs also get removed from the inode cache
+ * otherwise we'd waste memory. This function looks up an inode from the
+ * inode cache and clears the link counter such that iput() will evict
+ * the inode.
+ */
+void ubifs_evict_xattr_inode(struct ubifs_info *c, ino_t xattr_inum)
+{
+ struct inode *inode;
+
+ inode = ilookup(c->vfs_sb, xattr_inum);
+ if (inode) {
+ clear_nlink(inode);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
+}
+
static int ubifs_xattr_remove(struct inode *host, const char *name)
{
struct inode *inode;
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