linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 05/13] fscrypt: introduce fscrypt_encrypt_block

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Date:   Mon, 06 May 2019 14:07:31 +0530
From:   Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] fscrypt: introduce fscrypt_encrypt_block_inplace()

On Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:15:07 AM IST Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> fscrypt_encrypt_page() behaves very differently depending on whether the
> filesystem set FS_CFLG_OWN_PAGES in its fscrypt_operations.  This makes
> the function difficult to understand and document.  It also makes it so
> that all callers have to provide inode and lblk_num, when fscrypt could
> determine these itself for pagecache pages.
> 
> Therefore, move the FS_CFLG_OWN_PAGES behavior into a new function
> fscrypt_encrypt_block_inplace().

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.ibm.com>

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chandan