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Commit d121f788 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fsverity: don't drop pagecache at end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY

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The full pagecache drop at the end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY is causing
performance problems and is hindering adoption of fsverity.  It was
intended to solve a race condition where unverified pages might be left
in the pagecache.  But actually it doesn't solve it fully.

Since the incomplete solution for this race condition has too much
performance impact for it to be worth it, let's remove it for now.

Fixes: 3fda4c61

 ("fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarVictor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314235332.50270-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 4c24eb49
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