From: David Gstir Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant check for encrypted file on dio write path Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 08:03:22 +0200 Message-ID: <07EDDE1E-335F-418A-8058-C12734CC6EF6@sigma-star.at> References: <20170523005316.18996-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers To: Eric Biggers Return-path: Received: from mail.sigma-star.at ([95.130.255.111]:45996 "EHLO mail.sigma-star.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752602AbdEWGD0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2017 02:03:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170523005316.18996-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Eric, > On 23 May 2017, at 02:53, Eric Biggers wrote: > > From: Eric Biggers > > Currently we don't allow direct I/O on encrypted regular files, so in > such cases we return 0 early in ext4_direct_IO(). There was also an > additional BUG_ON() check in ext4_direct_IO_write(), but it can never be > hit because of the earlier check for the exact same condition in > ext4_direct_IO(). There was also no matching check on the read path, > which made the write path specific check seem very ad-hoc. > > Just remove the unnecessary BUG_ON(). > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers > --- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c > index 1bd0bfa547f6..7c6e715b4d2e 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c > @@ -3629,9 +3629,6 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) > get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async; > dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING; > } > -#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION > - BUG_ON(ext4_encrypted_inode(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)); > -#endif > ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iter, > get_block_func, ext4_end_io_dio, NULL, > dio_flags); > -- > 2.13.0.303.g4ebf302169-goog LGTM. Reviewed-by: David Gstir David