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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2026-02-02 07:06:40 +0100
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>2026-02-04 11:31:54 -0800
commitf77f281b61183a5c0b87e6a4d101c70bd32c1c79 (patch)
treebdca555b35133f7d898fd43472eb815d960d5e51 /include/linux/moduleparam.h
parentb0160e4501bb3572d9ef6e4f8edf758193ee37aa (diff)
fsverity: use a hashtable to find the fsverity_info
Use the kernel's resizable hash table (rhashtable) to find the fsverity_info. This way file systems that want to support fsverity don't have to bloat every inode in the system with an extra pointer. The trade-off is that looking up the fsverity_info is a bit more expensive now, but the main operations are still dominated by I/O and hashing overhead. The rhashtable implementations requires no external synchronization, and the _fast versions of the APIs provide the RCU critical sections required by the implementation. Because struct fsverity_info is only removed on inode eviction and does not contain a reference count, there is no need for an extended critical section to grab a reference or validate the object state. The file open path uses rhashtable_lookup_get_insert_fast, which can either find an existing object for the hash key or insert a new one in a single atomic operation, so that concurrent opens never instantiate duplicate fsverity_info structure. FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY must already be synchronized by a combination of i_rwsem and file system flags and uses rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast, which errors out on an existing object for the hash key as an additional safety check. Because insertion into the hash table now happens before S_VERITY is set, fsverity just becomes a barrier and a flag check and doesn't have to look up the fsverity_info at all, so there is only a single lookup per ->read_folio or ->readahead invocation. For btrfs there is an additional one for each bio completion, while for ext4 and f2fs the fsverity_info is stored in the per-I/O context and reused for the completion workqueue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202060754.270269-12-hch@lst.de [EB: folded in fix for missing fsverity_free_info()] Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
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