Re: [PATCH 3/17] afs: convert afs_dir_get_page to read_kmap_page

[David Howells]

Nate Diller <nate.diller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmmm you're right.  Is your security work going into the next -mm?

I don't know.  Andrew hasn't said anything.  Andrew?  Are you waiting for it
to go through DaveM's networking tree?

> If so, I'll just re-base this cleanup patch on that ... at the very least I
> want to get rid of afs_dir_put_page().

That's reasonable.

> Also, did you consider passing the key pointer directly and modifying the
> readpage actor to simply cast the pointer back, like
> read_mapping_page(mapping, page, (struct file *)key)?  It seems like a waste
> to allocate a whole file struct on the stack just for the ->private field.

There's one small problem with that...  And that's filemap_nopage() (it passes
vma->vm_file to readpage() unconditionally).  Unless, of course, your patches
fix that too...

David
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