linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v7 07/16] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION

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Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:46:47 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>,
        Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/16] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:35:56AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> "fscrypt lock" actually doesn't exist yet; it's a missing feature.  My patch to
> the fscrypt tool adds it.  So we get to decide on the semantics.  We don't want
> to require root, though; so for v2 policy keys, the real semantics have to be
> that "fscrypt lock" registers the key for the user, and "fscrypt unlock"
> unregisters it for the user.
> 

I meant the other way around, of course: "fscrypt unlock" registers the key for
the user, and "fscrypt lock" unregisters it for the user.

- Eric