In message <[email protected]>, Michael Halcrow writes:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:42:59PM +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> > This will avoid a possible fault in ecryptfs_sync_page().
>
> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <[email protected]>
>
> Note that there are other outstanding issues with eCryptfs on NFS. For
> instance, prepare_write()/commit_write() have gone away in -mm,
> leading to an oops when eCryptfs tries to call them directly, which is
> well deserved, since eCryptfs really should not be doing that. Unionfs
> has just two places where it calls vfs_read() and vfs_write()
> respectively; eCryptfs is a bit more complex, with multiple write
> paths that end up writing encrypted data and updating metadata in the
> header. I am currently trying to find a way to convert everything over
> to vfs_read() and vfs_write() in eCryptfs, in a way that does not
> ultimately result in a kernel hang.
Mike, check the latest unionfs 2.1.2 code in
http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. In the past couple of months I've already
gotten rid of direct calls to prepare/commit_write in favor of
vfs_read/write. There were a number of reasons for that mostly having to do
with races, deadlocks/hangs, and memory-pressure conditions. I also have a
number of additional mmap related fixes in fs/unionfs/mmap.c that you should
probably look at as they're applicable to stacking in general.
Lastly, to stack on nfs, at the very least you'll probably need my lower_nd
fixes from unionfs as well, or something like it. As of 2.6.23-rc3, you
need to stack on the nameidata structure even for nfs2/nfs3. My patches
take care of that for now (until such a day as the VFS will have a true,
stackable, small intent structure that can be passed to a lower f/s).
Cheers,
Erez.
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