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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsstack: fsstack_copy_inode_size locking
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:03:50 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:49:01PM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> eCryptfs depends on the results of i_size_read() on the lower inode
> when it needs to interpolate the filesize when the metadata is stored
> in the lower file's xattr region.

please use vfs_getattr to get the size in thst case.