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Eric Biggers 457b1e353c 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 36086d43f6 ("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 <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226154216.4808-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
History 2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
arch PPC: 2019-12-22 10:26:59 -08:00
block block: fix memleak when __blk_rq_map_user_iov() is failed 2019-12-20 11:52:01 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation ext4: allow ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files 2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
drivers block-5.5-20191221 2019-12-22 10:36:55 -08:00
fs ext4: allow ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files 2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.