linux-ext4 - Re: [xfstests-bld PATCH] test-appliance: exclude ext4/023 and ext4/028 from encrypt config

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Message-ID: <20200612202003.GD2863913@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:20:03 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [xfstests-bld PATCH] test-appliance: exclude ext4/023 and
 ext4/028 from encrypt config

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 02:54:57PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> In Linux 5.8, the test_dummy_encryption mount option will use v2
> encryption policies rather than v1 as it previously did.  This increases
> the size of the encryption xattr slightly, causing two ext4 tests to
> start failing due to xattr spillover.  Exclude these tests.
> 
> See kernel commit ed318a6cc0b6 ("fscrypt: support
> test_dummy_encryption=v2") for more details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted