Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 02:06:39PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > >> > A paragraph above you've said that it's not constant over the entire >> > filesystem. >> >> The same ->d_op is used by every dentry in the filesystem if the superblock >> has the casefold bit enabled, regardless of whether a specific inode is >> casefolded or not. See generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops in my tree. It is >> called unconditionally by ext4_lookup and only checks the superblock: >> >> void generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops(struct dentry *dentry) >> { >> if (dentry->d_sb->s_encoding) { >> d_set_d_op(dentry, &generic_encrypted_ci_dentry_ops); >> return; >> } >> ... >> >> What I meant was that this used to be set once at sb->s_d_op, and >> propagated during dentry allocation. Therefore, the propagation to the >> alias would happen inside __d_alloc. Once we enabled fscrypt and >> casefold to work together, sb->s_d_op is NULL > > Why? That's what I don't understand - if you really want it for > all dentries on that filesystem, that's what ->s_d_op is for. > If it is not, you have that problem, no matter which way you flip ->d_op > value. I'm not sure why it changed. I'm guessing that, since it doesn't make sense to set fscrypt_d_revalidate for every dentry in the !case-insensitive case, they just kept the same behavior for case-insensitive+fscrypt. This is what I get from looking at the git history. I will get a new series reverting to use ->s_d_op, folding the dentry_cmp behavior you mentioned, and based on what you merge in your branch. >> and we always set the same >> handler for every dentry during lookup. > > Not every dentry goes through lookup - see upthread for details. Yes, I got that already. This should be "we always set the same handler for every dentry that goes through lookup and bork whatever doesn't come through lookup." -- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi