On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 04:16:02PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> fscrypt dentries are always valid once the key is available. Since the
> key cannot be removed without evicting the dentry, we don't need to keep
> retrying to revalidate it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/crypto/fname.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/crypto/fname.c b/fs/crypto/fname.c
> index 7b3fc189593a..0457ba2d7d76 100644
> --- a/fs/crypto/fname.c
> +++ b/fs/crypto/fname.c
> @@ -591,8 +591,15 @@ int fscrypt_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
> * reverting to no-key names without evicting the directory's inode
> * -- which implies eviction of the dentries in the directory.
> */
> - if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME))
> + if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME)) {
> + /*
> + * If fscrypt is the only feature requiring
> + * revalidation for this dentry, we can just disable it.
> + */
> + if (dentry->d_op->d_revalidate == &fscrypt_d_revalidate)
Umm... What about ceph? IOW, why do we care how had we gotten to that
function - directly via ->d_revalidate() or from ->d_revalidate() instance?
