linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/8] ext4: Fix superblock checksum failure when setting password salt

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:02:52 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        harshad shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>,
        Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] ext4: Fix superblock checksum failure when setting
 password salt

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:18:43AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> When setting password salt in the superblock, we forget to recompute the
> superblock checksum so it will not match until the next superblock
> modification which recomputes the checksum. Fix it.
> 
> CC: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
> Fixes: 9bd8212f981e ("ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support")
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted