Re: [PATCH 02/36] fscrypt: export fscrypt_base64url_encode and fscrypt_base64url_decode

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On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 10:36:13AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Ceph is going to add fscrypt support, but we still want encrypted
> filenames to be composed of printable characters, so we can maintain
> compatibility with clients that don't support fscrypt.
> 
> We could just adopt fscrypt's current nokey name format, but that is
> subject to change in the future, and it also contains dirhash fields
> that we don't need for cephfs. Because of this, we're going to concoct
> our own scheme for encoding encrypted filenames. It's very similar to
> fscrypt's current scheme, but doesn't bother with the dirhash fields.
> 
> The ceph encoding scheme will use base64 encoding as well, and we also
> want it to avoid characters that are illegal in filenames. Export the
> fscrypt base64 encoding/decoding routines so we can use them in ceph's
> fscrypt implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/crypto/fname.c       | 8 ++++----
>  include/linux/fscrypt.h | 5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Eric



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