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-rw-r--r--fs/ceph/xattr.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
index c083557b3657..939eab7aa219 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
@@ -754,12 +754,15 @@ static int __get_required_blob_size(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, int name_size,
 
 /*
  * If there are dirty xattrs, reencode xattrs into the prealloc_blob
- * and swap into place.
+ * and swap into place.  It returns the old i_xattrs.blob (or NULL) so
+ * that it can be freed by the caller as the i_ceph_lock is likely to be
+ * held.
  */
-void __ceph_build_xattrs_blob(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
+struct ceph_buffer *__ceph_build_xattrs_blob(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
 {
 	struct rb_node *p;
 	struct ceph_inode_xattr *xattr = NULL;
+	struct ceph_buffer *old_blob = NULL;
 	void *dest;
 
 	dout("__build_xattrs_blob %p\n", &ci->vfs_inode);
@@ -790,12 +793,14 @@ void __ceph_build_xattrs_blob(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
 			dest - ci->i_xattrs.prealloc_blob->vec.iov_base;
 
 		if (ci->i_xattrs.blob)
-			ceph_buffer_put(ci->i_xattrs.blob);
+			old_blob = ci->i_xattrs.blob;
 		ci->i_xattrs.blob = ci->i_xattrs.prealloc_blob;
 		ci->i_xattrs.prealloc_blob = NULL;
 		ci->i_xattrs.dirty = false;
 		ci->i_xattrs.version++;
 	}
+
+	return old_blob;
 }
 
 static inline int __get_request_mask(struct inode *in) {