On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 11:56 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 03:40:20PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 11:46 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 10:36:16AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > > ceph_atomic_open needs to be able to call this. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h | 26 -------------------------- > > > > fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > include/linux/fscrypt.h | 5 +++++ > > > > 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) > > > > > > What is the use case for this, more precisely? I've been trying to keep > > > filesystems using helper functions like fscrypt_prepare_*() and > > > fscrypt_file_open() rather than setting up encryption keys directly, which is a > > > bit too low-level to be doing outside of fs/crypto/. > > > > > > Perhaps fscrypt_file_open() is what you're looking for here? > > > > That doesn't really help because we don't have the inode for the file > > yet at the point where we need the key. > > > > atomic_open basically does a lookup+open. You give it a directory inode > > and a dentry, and it issues an open request by filename. If it gets back > > ENOENT then we know that the thing is a negative dentry. > > > > In the lookup path, I used __fscrypt_prepare_readdir. This situation is > > a bit similar so I might be able to use that instead. OTOH, that doesn't > > fail when you don't have the key, and if you don't, there's not a lot of > > point in going any further here. > > So you're requiring the key on a directory to do a lookup in that directory? > Normally that's not required, as files can be looked up by no-key name. Why is > the atomic_open case different? > > The file inode's key is needed to open it, of > course, but the directory inode's key shouldn't be needed. In practice you'll > tend to have the key for both or neither inode, but that's not guaranteed. > We're issuing an open request to the server without looking up the inode first. In order to do that open request, we need to encode a filename into the request, and to do that we need the encryption key. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
