[PATCH 0/5] fscrypt: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks
Eric Biggers
ebiggers at kernel.org
Sun Jul 25 20:58:34 PDT 2021
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 11:53:45PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series makes the stat() family of syscalls start reporting the
> correct size for encrypted symlinks.
>
> See patch 1 for a detailed explanation of the problem and solution.
>
> Patch 1 adds a helper function that computes the correct size for an
> encrypted symlink. Patches 2-4 make the filesystems with fscrypt
> support use it, and patch 5 updates the documentation.
>
> This series applies to mainline commit 3dbdb38e2869.
>
> Eric Biggers (5):
> fscrypt: add fscrypt_symlink_getattr() for computing st_size
> ext4: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks
> f2fs: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks
> ubifs: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks
> fscrypt: remove mention of symlink st_size quirk from documentation
>
> Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 5 ---
> fs/crypto/hooks.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/ext4/symlink.c | 12 +++++++-
> fs/f2fs/namei.c | 12 +++++++-
> fs/ubifs/file.c | 13 +++++++-
> include/linux/fscrypt.h | 7 +++++
> 6 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 3dbdb38e286903ec220aaf1fb29a8d94297da246
All applied to fscrypt.git#master for 5.15.
- Eric
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