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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
"The main change this cycle is a significant simplification that's been
overdue for a while now: standardizing on a single file contents
encryption implementation in ext4 and f2fs, instead of having two.
Specifically, the original filesystem-layer file contents encryption
implementation is removed, and the blk-crypto implementation is now
used unconditionally. blk-crypto delegates either to inline crypto
hardware or to the CPU via blk-crypto-fallback. The latter is
functionally equivalent to the original filesystem-layer code.
The blk-crypto implementation already existed, but previously it was
used only when the filesystem was mounted with "-o inlinecrypt". Now,
"-o inlinecrypt" just selects whether inline crypto hardware is used.
To allow maintaining that user control over hardware use, the
blk-crypto API is extended with a new flag BLK_CRYPTO_CFG_ALLOW_HW.
Overall, this removes quite a bit of redundant code from ext4, f2fs,
and fs/crypto/. It should make things easier for ongoing filesystem
efforts such as iomap support, large folios, and btrfs encryption
(btrfs had already been planning to use blk-crypto exclusively.)
There are two small behavior changes of note:
- Direct I/O now works on encrypted files even without "-o inlinecrypt",
rather than falling back to buffered I/O. This is effectively a
bugfix, though I'll continue to keep an eye out for any user that
may have been depending on the buffered I/O fallback.
- IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies are no longer supported in certain cases
that didn't make sense and have no known uses.
This has been in linux-next since July 22 with no reported issues. All
encryption xfstests pass on ext4 and f2fs. As usual I've also been
using it on a system with an fscrypt-encrypted home directory. Of
course, the blk-crypto code paths also aren't new and were already
being used on many systems via the inlinecrypt mount option.
In addition to the main change described above, there are a few other
cleanups such as using lock guards for mutexes, improving
documentation, and removing a workaround for outdated gcc versions"
* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux: (29 commits)
blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation
blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported()
fscrypt: Update docs for data path
fscrypt: Remove unused function fscrypt_finalize_bounce_page()
f2fs: Update outdated comment in f2fs_write_begin()
fs: Update outdated comment for SB_INLINECRYPT
fscrypt: Update encryption policy version docs
fscrypt: Replace some variable-size memsets with fixed-size
fscrypt: Add safety checks to non-block-based en/decryption
fscrypt: Merge bio.c and inline_crypt.c into block.c
fscrypt: Remove unused functions and workqueue
fscrypt: Remove fs-layer zeroout code
fscrypt: Remove fscrypt_dio_supported()
fscrypt: Replace calls to fscrypt_inode_uses_inline_crypto()
fs/buffer: Remove fs-layer decryption code
f2fs: Remove fs-layer file contents en/decryption code
ext4: Further de-generalize the bio postprocessing code
ext4: Make ext4_bio_write_folio() return void
ext4: Remove fs-layer file contents en/decryption code
Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
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