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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2019-04-10 13:21:15 -0700
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2019-04-17 12:43:29 -0400
commit2c58d548f5706d085c4b009f6abb945220460632 (patch)
treeb263f432d3ad778b6970ebbb842bd0a577e88cdc /include/linux/fscrypt.h
parent4c4f7c19b3c721aed418bc97907b411608c5c6a0 (diff)
fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in ->i_link
Path lookups that traverse encrypted symlink(s) are very slow because each encrypted symlink needs to be decrypted each time it's followed. This also involves dropping out of rcu-walk mode. Make encrypted symlinks faster by caching the decrypted symlink target in ->i_link. The first call to fscrypt_get_symlink() sets it. Then, the existing VFS path lookup code uses the non-NULL ->i_link to take the fast path where ->get_link() isn't called, and lookups in rcu-walk mode remain in rcu-walk mode. Also set ->i_link immediately when a new encrypted symlink is created. To safely free the symlink target after an RCU grace period has elapsed, introduce a new function fscrypt_free_inode(), and make the relevant filesystems call it just before actually freeing the inode. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fscrypt.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fscrypt.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fscrypt.h b/include/linux/fscrypt.h
index abe7081b6b22..28c74e0a7231 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscrypt.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscrypt.h
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ extern int fscrypt_inherit_context(struct inode *, struct inode *,
/* keyinfo.c */
extern int fscrypt_get_encryption_info(struct inode *);
extern void fscrypt_put_encryption_info(struct inode *);
+extern void fscrypt_free_inode(struct inode *);
/* fname.c */
extern int fscrypt_setup_filename(struct inode *, const struct qstr *,
@@ -341,6 +342,10 @@ static inline void fscrypt_put_encryption_info(struct inode *inode)
return;
}
+static inline void fscrypt_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+}
+
/* fname.c */
static inline int fscrypt_setup_filename(struct inode *dir,
const struct qstr *iname,