[PATCH RFC 04/14] fs/crypto: stop setting PG_private on bounce page

From: Zi Yan

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 22:18:17 EST


The point to a plaintext folio is stored in page->private and cannot be
NULL, making PG_private redundant.

It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.

No funtional change intended.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fscrypt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/crypto/crypto.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/crypto/crypto.c b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
index 570a2231c945a..c8a98dd94650f 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ void fscrypt_free_bounce_page(struct page *bounce_page)
if (!bounce_page)
return;
set_page_private(bounce_page, (unsigned long)NULL);
- ClearPagePrivate(bounce_page);
mempool_free(bounce_page, fscrypt_bounce_page_pool);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_free_bounce_page);
@@ -202,7 +201,6 @@ struct page *fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(struct folio *folio,
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
}
- SetPagePrivate(ciphertext_page);
set_page_private(ciphertext_page, (unsigned long)folio);
return ciphertext_page;
}

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