[PATCH v2 2/3] fscrypt: Have filesystems handle their d_ops

Theodore Y. Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Tue Nov 17 09:03:26 EST 2020


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 at google.com>

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




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