Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: make fname_encrypt() actually return length of ciphertext

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 02:57:04PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> I agree that the return value is redundant and somewhat error prone.  However,
> this style is already being used for fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(),
> fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk(), and fname_decrypt().  My patch was primarily
> intended to make things more consistent by updating fname_encrypt(), which was
> the odd one out.  If you'd prefer, I can instead do a patch to make all these
> related functions return 0 on success, rather than a length.  That would be a
> somewhat larger patch.
> 

To see more concretely what it looks like, I went ahead and wrote the "make the
functions return 0" version of the patch.  I'm sending it to be considered as
well.

In theory I think it's better, though it's a larger patch.
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