linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] afs: Sort out symlink reading

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Date:   Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:44:35 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>,
        David Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] afs: Sort out symlink reading

Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> wrote:

> > -static int afs_symlink_readpage(struct page *page)
> > +static int afs_symlink_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
> >  {
> >  	struct afs_vnode *vnode = AFS_FS_I(page->mapping->host);
> >  	struct afs_read *fsreq;
> 
> 
> I wonder...would you be better served here by not using page_readlink
> for symlinks and instead use simple_get_link and roll your own readlink
> operation. It seems a bit more direct, and AFS seems to be the only
> caller of page_readlink.

Maybe.  At some point it will need to go through netfs_readpage() so that it
will get cached and maybe encrypted.  Possibly there should be a
netfs_readlink().  AFS directories too will at some point need to go through
netfs_readahead() or similar.

David