From 457b1e353c739af39159269723949f315320446c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 09:42:16 -0600 Subject: ext4: allow ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files When ext4 encryption support was first added, ZERO_RANGE was disallowed, supposedly because test failures (e.g. ext4/001) were seen when enabling it, and at the time there wasn't enough time/interest to debug it. However, there's actually no reason why ZERO_RANGE can't work on encrypted files. And it fact it *does* work now. Whole blocks in the zeroed range are converted to unwritten extents, as usual; encryption makes no difference for that part. Partial blocks are zeroed in the pagecache and then ->writepages() encrypts those blocks as usual. ext4_block_zero_page_range() handles reading and decrypting the block if needed before actually doing the pagecache write. Also, f2fs has always supported ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files. As far as I can tell, the reason that ext4/001 was failing in v4.1 was actually because of one of the bugs fixed by commit 36086d43f657 ("ext4 crypto: fix bugs in ext4_encrypted_zeroout()"). The bug made ext4_encrypted_zeroout() always return a positive value, which caused unwritten extents in encrypted files to sometimes not be marked as initialized after being written to. This bug was not actually in ZERO_RANGE; it just happened to trigger during the extents manipulation done in ext4/001 (and probably other tests too). So, let's enable ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files on ext4. Tested with: gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt -g auto gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt_1k -g auto Got the same set of test failures both with and without this patch. But with this patch 6 fewer tests are skipped: ext4/001, generic/008, generic/009, generic/033, generic/096, and generic/511. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226154216.4808-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 68c2bc8275cf..07f1f15276bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -975,9 +975,9 @@ astute users may notice some differences in behavior: - Direct I/O is not supported on encrypted files. Attempts to use direct I/O on such files will fall back to buffered I/O. -- The fallocate operations FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE, - FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE, and FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE are not supported - on encrypted files and will fail with EOPNOTSUPP. +- The fallocate operations FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and + FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE are not supported on encrypted files and will + fail with EOPNOTSUPP. - Online defragmentation of encrypted files is not supported. The EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT and F2FS_IOC_MOVE_RANGE ioctls will fail with -- cgit v1.2.3