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Message-ID: <20201117140326.GA445084@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:03:26 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fscrypt: Have filesystems handle their d_ops

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:03:14AM +0000, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> This shifts the responsibility of setting up dentry operations from
> fscrypt to the individual filesystems, allowing them to have their own
> operations while still setting fscrypt's d_revalidate as appropriate.
> 
> Most filesystems can just use generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops, unless
> they have their own specific dentry operations as well. That operation
> will set the minimal d_ops required under the circumstances.
> 
> Since the fscrypt d_ops are set later on, we must set all d_ops there,
> since we cannot adjust those later on. This should not result in any
> change in behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>