FROMLIST: fuse: Introduce synchronous read and write for passthrough
All the read and write operations performed on fuse_files which have the passthrough feature enabled are forwarded to the associated lower file system file via VFS. Sending the request directly to the lower file system avoids the userspace round-trip that, because of possible context switches and additional operations might reduce the overall performance, especially in those cases where caching doesn't help, for example in reads at random offsets. Verifying if a fuse_file has a lower file system file associated with can be done by checking the validity of its passthrough_filp pointer. This pointer is not NULL only if passthrough has been successfully enabled via the appropriate ioctl(). When a read/write operation is requested for a FUSE file with passthrough enabled, a new equivalent VFS request is generated, which instead targets the lower file system file. The VFS layer performs additional checks that allow for safer operations but may cause the operation to fail if the process accessing the FUSE file system does not have access to the lower file system. This change only implements synchronous requests in passthrough, returning an error in the case of asynchronous operations, yet covering the majority of the use cases. Bug: 179164095 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210125153057.3623715-6-balsini@android.com/ Signed-off-by:Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Change-Id: Ifbe6a247fe7338f87d078fde923f0252eeaeb668 Signed-off-by:
Alessio Balsini <balsini@google.com>
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