Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] fscrypt: use EEXIST when file already uses different policy

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:12:46AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> As part of an effort to clean up fscrypt-related error codes, make
> FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY fail with EEXIST when the file already uses
> a different encryption policy.  This is more descriptive than EINVAL,
> which was ambiguous with some of the other error cases.
> 
> I am not aware of any users who might be relying on the previous error
> code of EINVAL, which was never documented anywhere.
> 
> This failure case will be exercised by an xfstest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the fscrypt branch, thanks.

						- Ted
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