linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v8 15/20] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_ALL

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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:15:55 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
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,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>,
        Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 15/20] fscrypt: add
 FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_ALL_USERS ioctl

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:25:16AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Add a root-only variant of the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl which
> removes all users' claims of the key, not just the current user's claim.
> I.e., it always removes the key itself, no matter how many users have
> added it.
> 
> This is useful for forcing a directory to be locked, without having to
> figure out which user ID(s) the key was added under.  This is planned to
> be used by a command like 'sudo fscrypt lock DIR --all-users' in the
> fscrypt userspace tool (http://github.com/google/fscrypt).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Looks good, thanks.   Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>