Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: lock inode while setting encryption policy

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On 28.09.2016 20:34, Eric Biggers wrote:
> i_rwsem needs to be acquired while setting an encryption policy so that
> concurrent calls to FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY are correctly
> serialized (especially the ->get_context() + ->set_context() pair), and
> so that new files cannot be created in the directory during or after the
> ->empty_dir() check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
//richard
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