linux-ext4 - Re: [6/6] ext4: clean up ext4

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Date:   Sun, 30 Apr 2017 02:22:06 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>, hashimoto@...omium.org,
        kinaba@...omium.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [6/6] ext4: clean up ext4_match() and callers

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:00:13AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> When ext4 encryption was originally merged, we were encrypting the
> user-specified filename in ext4_match(), introducing a lot of additional
> complexity into ext4_match() and its callers.  This has since been
> changed to encrypt the filename earlier, so we can remove the gunk
> that's no longer needed.  This more or less reverts ext4_search_dir()
> and ext4_find_dest_de() to the way they were in the v4.0 kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted