Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: export fscrypt_d_revalidate()

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: export fscrypt_d_revalidate()
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:55:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200928215558.GD1340@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200924054721.187797-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:47:21PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> Dentries that represent no-key names must have a dentry_operations that
> includes fscrypt_d_revalidate().  Currently, this is handled by
> fscrypt_prepare_lookup() installing fscrypt_d_ops.
> 
> However, ceph support for encryption
> (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914191707.380444-1-jlayton@kernel.org)
> can't use fscrypt_d_ops, since ceph already has its own
> dentry_operations.
> 
> Similarly, ext4 and f2fs support for directories that are both encrypted
> and casefolded
> (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923010151.69506-1-drosen@google.com)
> can't use fscrypt_d_ops either, since casefolding requires some dentry
> operations too.
> 
> To satisfy both users, we need to move the responsibility of installing
> the dentry_operations to filesystems.
> 
> In preparation for this, export fscrypt_d_revalidate() and give it a
> !CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION stub.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
> 
> Compared to the versions of this patch from Jeff and Daniel, I've
> improved the commit message and added a !CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION stub,
> which was missing.  I'm planning to apply this for 5.10 in preparation
> for both the ceph patchset and the encrypt+casefold patchset.
> 
> 
>  fs/crypto/fname.c       | 3 ++-
>  include/linux/fscrypt.h | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to fscrypt.git#master for 5.10.

- Eric