linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] e4crypt: if salt is explicitly provided to add

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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:36:47 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Florian Schmaus <flo@...kplace.eu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] e4crypt: if salt is explicitly provided to add_key,
 then use it

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:27:30AM +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> Providing -S and a path to 'add_key' previously exhibit an unintuitive
> behavior: instead of using the salt explicitly provided by the user,
> e4crypt would use the salt obtained via EXT4_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_PWSALT
> on the path. This was because set_policy() was still called with NULL
> as salt.
> 
> With this change we now remember the explicitly provided salt (if any)
> and use it as argument for set_policy().
> 
> Eventually
> 
> e4crypt add_key -S s:my-spicy-salt /foo
> 
> will now actually use 'my-spicy-salt' and not something else as salt
> for the policy set on /foo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flo@...kplace.eu>

Applied, with the spell correction Eric pointed out.

	      	  		   	- Ted