linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: do not unnecessarily null-terminate encrypted symlink data

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Message-ID: <20160930054528.rc4a45gkeelhdyjp@thunk.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2016 01:45:28 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, jaegeuk@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: do not unnecessarily null-terminate encrypted
 symlink data

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 01:31:47PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Null-terminating the fscrypt_symlink_data on read is unnecessary because
> it is not string data --- it contains binary ciphertext.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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