Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: move ioctl processing more fully into common code

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> In addition, make the common functions do the copies to and from
> userspace rather than duplicating this code within each filesystem, and
> memset the policy to 0 to make it clear there is no stack leak.

I don't see any point of doing this, given that we initialize all
parts of the fscrypt_policy structure; and since this structure is
part of UAPI, we can't change it without breaking userspace.

I'll apply this with the memset (and the above comment in the commit
description) removed.

					- Ted
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