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    loop: remove the incorrect write_begin/write_end shortcut · 456be148
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    
    
    Currently the loop device tries to call directly into write_begin/write_end
    instead of going through ->write if it can.  This is a fairly nasty shortcut
    as write_begin and write_end are only callbacks for the generic write code
    and expect to be called with filesystem specific locks held.
    
    This code currently causes various issues for clustered filesystems as it
    doesn't take the required cluster locks, and it also causes issues for XFS
    as it doesn't properly lock against the swapext ioctl as called by the
    defragmentation tools.  This in case causes data corruption if
    defragmentation hits a busy loop device in the wrong time window, as
    reported by RH QA.
    
    The reason why we have this shortcut is that it saves a data copy when
    doing a transformation on the loop device, which is the technical term
    for using cryptoloop (or an XOR transformation).  Given that cryptoloop
    has been deprecated in favour of dm-crypt my opinion is that we should
    simply drop this shortcut instead of finding complicated ways to to
    introduce a formal interface for this shortcut.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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