linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant check for encrypted file on dio write path

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Message-Id: <20170523005316.18996-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 17:53:16 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant check for encrypted file on dio write path

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Currently we don't allow direct I/O on encrypted regular files, so in
such cases we return 0 early in ext4_direct_IO().  There was also an
additional BUG_ON() check in ext4_direct_IO_write(), but it can never be
hit because of the earlier check for the exact same condition in
ext4_direct_IO().  There was also no matching check on the read path,
which made the write path specific check seem very ad-hoc.

Just remove the unnecessary BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 1bd0bfa547f6..7c6e715b4d2e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3629,9 +3629,6 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 		get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async;
 		dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING;
 	}
-#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
-	BUG_ON(ext4_encrypted_inode(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode));
-#endif
 	ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iter,
 				   get_block_func, ext4_end_io_dio, NULL,
 				   dio_flags);
-- 
2.13.0.303.g4ebf302169-goog