Re: [PATCH 01/13] fscrypt: simplify bounce page handling

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On Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:15:03 AM IST Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, bounce page handling for writes to encrypted files is
> unnecessarily complicated.  A fscrypt_ctx is allocated along with each
> bounce page, page_private(bounce_page) points to this fscrypt_ctx, and
> fscrypt_ctx::w::control_page points to the original pagecache page.
> 
> However, because writes don't use the fscrypt_ctx for anything else,
> there's no reason why page_private(bounce_page) can't just point to the
> original pagecache page directly.
> 
> Therefore, this patch makes this change.  In the process, it also cleans
> up the API exposed to filesystems that allows testing whether a page is
> a bounce page, getting the pagecache page from a bounce page, and
> freeing a bounce page.

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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chandan






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