linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/9] f2fs: remove f2fs_dir

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Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:04:55 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>, <linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] f2fs: remove f2fs_dir_open()

On 2020/11/25 8:23, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Since encrypted directories can be opened without their encryption key
> being available, and each readdir tries to set up the key, trying to set

readdir -> readdir/lookup?

> up the key in ->open() too isn't really useful.
> 
> Just remove it so that directories don't need an ->open() method
> anymore, and so that we eliminate a use of fscrypt_get_encryption_info()
> (which I'd like to stop exporting to filesystems).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,