On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 03:25:15AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 04:15:48PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:06:57PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 01:21:14PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > > From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
> > > >
> > > > Use 'READ_ONCE(inode->i_link)' to explicitly support filesystems caching
> > > > the symlink target in ->i_link later if it was unavailable at iget()
> > > > time, or wasn't easily available. I'll be doing this in fscrypt, to
> > > > improve the performance of encrypted symlinks on ext4, f2fs, and ubifs.
> > > >
> > > > ->i_link will start NULL and may later be set to a non-NULL value by a
> > > > smp_store_release() or cmpxchg_release(). READ_ONCE() is needed on the
> > > > read side. smp_load_acquire() is unnecessary because only a data
> > > > dependency barrier is required. (Thanks to Al for pointing this out.)
> > >
> > > You've missed vfs_readlink()...
> >
> > How so? The patch already updates vfs_readlink().
>
> Huh? Right you are - fsck knows how have I managed to misread that...
> Anyway, I can pick that READ_ONCE() patch through vfs.git if you wish,
> or it can go through your tree with my Acked-by - up to you...
Al, I'll take it through the fscrypt tree with your Acked-by, if you
don't mind.
- Ted
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