Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] fscrypt: fix race allowing rename() and link() of ciphertext dentries

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:39:10AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Close some race conditions where fscrypt allowed rename() and link() on
> ciphertext dentries that had been looked up just prior to the key being
> concurrently added.  It's better to return -ENOKEY in this case.
> 
> This avoids doing the nonsensical thing of encrypting the names a second
> time when searching for the actual on-disk dir entries.  It also
> guarantees that DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME dentries are never rename()d, so
> the dcache won't have support all possible combinations of moving
> DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME around during __d_move().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good, applied.

					- Ted

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