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    vfs: use READ_ONCE() to access ->i_link · 4c4f7c19
    Eric Biggers authored
    Use 'READ_ONCE(inode->i_link)' to explicitly support filesystems caching
    the symlink target in ->i_link later if it was unavailable at iget()
    time, or wasn't easily available.  I'll be doing this in fscrypt, to
    improve the performance of encrypted symlinks on ext4, f2fs, and ubifs.
    
    ->i_link will start NULL and may later be set to a non-NULL value by a
    smp_store_release() or cmpxchg_release().  READ_ONCE() is needed on the
    read side.  smp_load_acquire() is unnecessary because only a data
    dependency barrier is required.  (Thanks to Al for pointing this out.)
    Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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