On Sat Aug 1, 2026 at 10:52 AM EDT, Usama Arif wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:13:27 -0400 Zi Yan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The point to a plaintext folio is stored in page->private and cannot be
>> NULL, making PG_private redundant.
>
> s/point to/pointer to/
>
>
> And fscrypt_free_bounce_page() NULLs it, so that needs to be corrected.

Will change it to:

The pointer to a plaintext folio is stored in bounce_page->private and
cannot be NULL until the bounce_page is freed, making PG_private
redundant.

>
>  
>> It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.
>> 
>> No funtional change intended.
>> 
>> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
>> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
>> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
>> To: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
>> To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[email protected]>
>> To: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> ---
>>  fs/crypto/crypto.c | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> Nothing in fscrypt or its users tests PG_private on a bounce page, so
> this looks right to me. The commit message needs to be corrected but code
> looks correct.
>
> Feel free to add:
>
> Acked-by: Usama Arif <[email protected]>

Thanks.

>
>
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/crypto/crypto.c b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
>> index 570a2231c945a..c8a98dd94650f 100644
>> --- a/fs/crypto/crypto.c
>> +++ b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
>> @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ void fscrypt_free_bounce_page(struct page *bounce_page)
>>      if (!bounce_page)
>>              return;
>>      set_page_private(bounce_page, (unsigned long)NULL);
>> -    ClearPagePrivate(bounce_page);
>>      mempool_free(bounce_page, fscrypt_bounce_page_pool);
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_free_bounce_page);
>> @@ -202,7 +201,6 @@ struct page *fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(struct 
>> folio *folio,
>>                      return ERR_PTR(err);
>>              }
>>      }
>> -    SetPagePrivate(ciphertext_page);
>>      set_page_private(ciphertext_page, (unsigned long)folio);
>>      return ciphertext_page;
>>  }
>> 
>> -- 
>> 2.53.0
>> 
>> 




-- 
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi


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