From: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bdriessen@escrypt.com, shaggy@us.ibm.com, sandeen@redhat.com,
tchicks@us.ibm.com, trevor.highland@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Make ecryptfs_prepare_write decrypt the page
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:47:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080302154742.GE4627@localhost.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080302080452.1e66b1a9@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:04:52AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:44:52 -0600
> Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > When the page is not up to date, ecryptfs_prepare_write() should be
> > acting much like ecryptfs_readpage(). This includes the painfully
> > obvious step of actually decrypting the page contents read from the
> > lower encrypted file.
> >
> > Note that this patch resolves a bug in eCryptfs in 2.6.24 that one can
> > produce with these steps:
>
> Should it go in -stable then?
Yes; I recommend this fix for a future 2.6.24 release.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-02 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-02 6:44 [PATCH] eCryptfs: Make ecryptfs_prepare_write decrypt the page Michael Halcrow
2008-03-02 14:04 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-02 15:47 ` Michael Halcrow [this message]
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