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authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-03-15 14:54:00 -0500
committerTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-04-25 18:45:06 -0500
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tree6219c664f7938fa8e5e8a2efa93aab7bcc38c12f /Documentation/padata.txt
parent332ab16f830f59e7621ae8eb2c353dc135a316f6 (diff)
eCryptfs: Handle failed metadata read in lookup
When failing to read the lower file's crypto metadata during a lookup, eCryptfs must continue on without throwing an error. For example, there may be a plaintext file in the lower mount point that the user wants to delete through the eCryptfs mount. If an error is encountered while reading the metadata in lookup(), the eCryptfs inode's size could be incorrect. We must be sure to reread the plaintext inode size from the metadata when performing an open() or setattr(). The metadata is already being read in those paths, so this adds minimal performance overhead. This patch introduces a flag which will track whether or not the plaintext inode size has been read so that an incorrect i_size can be fixed in the open() or setattr() paths. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180 Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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