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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-08-18 22:08:24 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-08-18 22:08:24 +0200
commit332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525 (patch)
treec3a46cae0901eec40dd900a9a64c8ad1e51647ba /include/linux/fs.h
parent0cad6246621b5887d5b33fea84219d2a71f2f99a (diff)
ovl: enable RCU'd ->get_acl()
Overlayfs does not cache ACL's (to avoid double caching). Instead it just calls the underlying filesystem's i_op->get_acl(), which will return the cached value, if possible. In rcu path walk, however, get_cached_acl_rcu() is employed to get the value from the cache, which will fail on overlayfs resulting in dropping out of rcu walk mode. This can result in a big performance hit in certain situations. Fix by calling ->get_acl() with rcu=true in case of ACL_DONT_CACHE (which indicates pass-through) Reported-by: garyhuang <zjh.20052005@163.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 73376dfe28d0..c6e5bcbff0c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -581,6 +581,11 @@ static inline void mapping_allow_writable(struct address_space *mapping)
struct posix_acl;
#define ACL_NOT_CACHED ((void *)(-1))
+/*
+ * ACL_DONT_CACHE is for stacked filesystems, that rely on underlying fs to
+ * cache the ACL. This also means that ->get_acl() can be called in RCU mode
+ * with the LOOKUP_RCU flag.
+ */
#define ACL_DONT_CACHE ((void *)(-3))
static inline struct posix_acl *