From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Barani Muthukumaran <bmuthuku@codeaurora.org>,
Gaurav Kashyap <gaurkash@codeaurora.org>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypt: reserve flags for hardware-wrapped keys feature
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:40:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117164054.GD448999@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200117081246.GA16846@infradead.org>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:12:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:20:08AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> >
> > Reserve flags for the hardware-wrapped keys feature which is being
> > worked on [1]. FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_HW_WRAPPED_KEY will denote that the
> > encryption policy needs a hardware-wrapped key to be unlocked.
> > FSCRYPT_ADD_KEY_FLAG_HW_WRAPPED will denote that the key being added is
> > a hardware-wrapped key.
> >
> > This reservation is tentative, and these codepoints may be reused if the
> > feature is not upstreamed.
>
> NAK. While the feature itself sounds really useful we don't just
> reserve format bits for code not upstream.
I disagree; saving a codepoint to avoid accidental collision of a
feature bit is a good and proper thing to do.
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
- Ted
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-16 19:20 [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypt: reserve flags for hardware-wrapped keys feature Eric Biggers
2020-01-17 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-17 16:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-01-17 16:56 ` Greg KH
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