Re: [1/4] fscrypt: fix context consistency check when key(s) unavailable

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On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 10:36:01AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Ted, can you add Cc stable to this commit?  (Just this one; the others in the
> series aren't as important.)  I think this fix is more important than I
> originally thought, because it's actually pretty easy to end up in a situation
> where a directory has its key but a file in it does not, due to the file's inode
> having been evicted from the inode cache but not the directory's inode.  This
> makes the file undeletable.

Done.  This meant I had to do a rewind on the fscrypt tree, so if
someone has built something on top of fscrypt since Sunday you may
need to take special precautions.  This was just a change to the
commit description so git rebase should take of the problem relatively
easily.

					- Ted
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