[PATCH] eCryptfs: Remove unnecessary page decrypt call

From: Michael Halcrow
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 18:07:23 EST


The page decrypt calls in ecryptfs_write() are both pointless and
buggy. Pointless because ecryptfs_get_locked_page() has already
brought the page up to date, and buggy because prior mmap writes will
just be blown away by the decrypt call.

This patch also removes the declaration of a now-nonexistent function
ecryptfs_write_zeros().

Thanks to Eric Sandeen and David Kleikamp for helping to track this
down.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 2 --
fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c | 22 ----------------------
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
index c1f4de1..b4a0ccc 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
@@ -674,8 +674,6 @@ int ecryptfs_get_tfm_and_mutex_for_cipher_name(struct crypto_blkcipher **tfm,
int ecryptfs_keyring_auth_tok_for_sig(struct key **auth_tok_key,
struct ecryptfs_auth_tok **auth_tok,
char *sig);
-int ecryptfs_write_zeros(struct file *file, pgoff_t index, int start,
- int num_zeros);
int ecryptfs_write_lower(struct inode *ecryptfs_inode, char *data,
loff_t offset, size_t size);
int ecryptfs_write_lower_page_segment(struct inode *ecryptfs_inode,
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c b/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c
index ebf5515..75c2ea9 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c
@@ -157,20 +157,6 @@ int ecryptfs_write(struct file *ecryptfs_file, char *data, loff_t offset,
ecryptfs_page_idx, rc);
goto out;
}
- if (start_offset_in_page) {
- /* Read in the page from the lower
- * into the eCryptfs inode page cache,
- * decrypting */
- rc = ecryptfs_decrypt_page(ecryptfs_page);
- if (rc) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error decrypting "
- "page; rc = [%d]\n",
- __func__, rc);
- ClearPageUptodate(ecryptfs_page);
- page_cache_release(ecryptfs_page);
- goto out;
- }
- }
ecryptfs_page_virt = kmap_atomic(ecryptfs_page, KM_USER0);

/*
@@ -349,14 +335,6 @@ int ecryptfs_read(char *data, loff_t offset, size_t size,
ecryptfs_page_idx, rc);
goto out;
}
- rc = ecryptfs_decrypt_page(ecryptfs_page);
- if (rc) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error decrypting "
- "page; rc = [%d]\n", __func__, rc);
- ClearPageUptodate(ecryptfs_page);
- page_cache_release(ecryptfs_page);
- goto out;
- }
ecryptfs_page_virt = kmap_atomic(ecryptfs_page, KM_USER0);
memcpy((data + data_offset),
((char *)ecryptfs_page_virt + start_offset_in_page),
--
1.5.3.6

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