Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Make ecryptfs_prepare_write decrypt the page

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 09:07:35 EST


On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:44:52 -0600
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When the page is not up to date, ecryptfs_prepare_write() should be
> acting much like ecryptfs_readpage(). This includes the painfully
> obvious step of actually decrypting the page contents read from the
> lower encrypted file.
>
> Note that this patch resolves a bug in eCryptfs in 2.6.24 that one can
> produce with these steps:

Should it go in -stable then?

josh
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