linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't allow encrypted operations without keys

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Date:   Sun, 5 Feb 2017 20:13:55 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Filesystem Development List 
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, jaegeuk@...nel.org,
        richard@....at, ebiggers@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't allow encrypted operations without keys

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 01:44:28PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> Hi Ted, this commit shows up twice in the ext4 tree, as 173b8439e1ba3 and
> a7ede371cb821, but the second actually adds the check two *more* times to
> ext4_cross_rename(), such that there are now a total of three checks in that
> function, all the same.  Do you want to revert the second, unnecessary, commit?

Yeah, it (and a few other fixes) was on the dev branch, and then when
they were cherry picked to the stable branch, and then I rebased the
dev branch on top of 4.10-rc3 to pick up a few other commits, I forgot
drop it.

Thanks for pointing it out; I've dropped it.

						- Ted