ext4: encrypt only up to last block in ext4_bio_write_page()

As an optimization, don't encrypt blocks fully beyond i_size, since
those definitely won't need to be written out.  Also add a comment.

This is in preparation for allowing encryption on ext4 filesystems with
blocksize != PAGE_SIZE.

This is based on work by Chandan Rajendra.

Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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Eric Biggers 2019-05-20 09:29:52 -07:00
parent ec39a36867
commit 6e4b73bcd1
1 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -467,11 +467,19 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
bh = head = page_buffers(page);
/*
* If any blocks are being written to an encrypted file, encrypt them
* into a bounce page. For simplicity, just encrypt until the last
* block which might be needed. This may cause some unneeded blocks
* (e.g. holes) to be unnecessarily encrypted, but this is rare and
* can't happen in the common case of blocksize == PAGE_SIZE.
*/
if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && nr_to_submit) {
gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS;
unsigned int enc_bytes = round_up(len, i_blocksize(inode));
retry_encrypt:
bounce_page = fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(page, PAGE_SIZE,
bounce_page = fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(page, enc_bytes,
0, gfp_flags);
if (IS_ERR(bounce_page)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(bounce_page);