eCryptfs: Revert to a writethrough cache model

A change was made about a year ago to get eCryptfs to better utilize its
page cache during writes. The idea was to do the page encryption
operations during page writeback, rather than doing them when initially
writing into the page cache, to reduce the number of page encryption
operations during sequential writes. This meant that the encrypted page
would only be written to the lower filesystem during page writeback,
which was a change from how eCryptfs had previously wrote to the lower
filesystem in ecryptfs_write_end().

The change caused a few eCryptfs-internal bugs that were shook out.
Unfortunately, more grave side effects have been identified that will
force changes outside of eCryptfs. Because the lower filesystem isn't
consulted until page writeback, eCryptfs has no way to pass lower write
errors (ENOSPC, mainly) back to userspace. Additionaly, it was reported
that quotas could be bypassed because of the way eCryptfs may sometimes
open the lower filesystem using a privileged kthread.

It would be nice to resolve the latest issues, but it is best if the
eCryptfs commits be reverted to the old behavior in the meantime.

This reverts:
32001d6f "eCryptfs: Flush file in vma close"
5be79de2 "eCryptfs: Flush dirty pages in setattr"
57db4e8d "ecryptfs: modify write path to encrypt page in writepage"

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Thieu Le <thieule@google.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
index baf8b05..44ce5c6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
@@ -138,27 +138,6 @@ out:
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static void ecryptfs_vma_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-{
-	filemap_write_and_wait(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
-}
-
-static const struct vm_operations_struct ecryptfs_file_vm_ops = {
-	.close		= ecryptfs_vma_close,
-	.fault		= filemap_fault,
-};
-
-static int ecryptfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-{
-	int rc;
-
-	rc = generic_file_mmap(file, vma);
-	if (!rc)
-		vma->vm_ops = &ecryptfs_file_vm_ops;
-
-	return rc;
-}
-
 struct kmem_cache *ecryptfs_file_info_cache;
 
 static int read_or_initialize_metadata(struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -311,15 +290,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 static int
 ecryptfs_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 {
-	int rc = 0;
-
-	rc = generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
-	if (rc)
-		goto out;
-	rc = vfs_fsync_range(ecryptfs_file_to_lower(file), start, end,
-			     datasync);
-out:
-	return rc;
+	return vfs_fsync(ecryptfs_file_to_lower(file), datasync);
 }
 
 static int ecryptfs_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int flag)
@@ -388,7 +359,7 @@ const struct file_operations ecryptfs_main_fops = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl = ecryptfs_compat_ioctl,
 #endif
-	.mmap = ecryptfs_file_mmap,
+	.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
 	.open = ecryptfs_open,
 	.flush = ecryptfs_flush,
 	.release = ecryptfs_release,