linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 09/12] ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 10:56:46 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>
Cc: ebiggers@...nel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jaegeuk@...nel.org,
        amir73il@...il.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/12] ext4: Configure dentry operations at
 dentry-creation time

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 05:43:27PM -0300, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> This was already the case for case-insensitive before commit
> bb9cd9106b22 ("fscrypt: Have filesystems handle their d_ops"), but it
> was changed to set at lookup-time to facilitate the integration with
> fscrypt.  But it's a problem because dentries that don't get created
> through ->lookup() won't have any visibility of the operations.
> 
> Since fscrypt now also supports configuring dentry operations at
> creation-time, do it for any encrypted and/or casefold volume,
> simplifying the implementation across these features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>

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