linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] eCryptfs fixes for 3.8-rc2

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:42:22 -0800
From:	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] eCryptfs fixes for 3.8-rc2

Hi Linus,

The following changes since commit 0e4a43ed08e2f44aa7b96aa95d0a540d675483e1:

  Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixes (2012-11-07 13:38:56 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs.git tags/ecryptfs-3.8-rc2-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to 37028758f92d0a3eb74bcfbecf6bc477072e9e28:

  fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c: make ecryptfs_encode_for_filename() static (2012-12-18 10:10:13 -0600)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Two self-explanatory fixes and a third patch which improves performance. When
overwriting a full page in the eCryptfs page cache, skip reading in and
decrypting the corresponding lower page.

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Cong Ding (1):
      fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c: make ecryptfs_encode_for_filename() static

Li Wang (1):
      eCryptfs: Avoid unnecessary disk read and data decryption during writing

Wei Yongjun (1):
      eCryptfs: fix to use list_for_each_entry_safe() when delete items

 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c  |    2 +-
 fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c |    6 +++---
 fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c    |   12 ++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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