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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:04:52 -0600
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       bdriessen@escrypt.com, shaggy@us.ibm.com, sandeen@redhat.com,
       tchicks@us.ibm.com, trevor.highland@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Make ecryptfs_prepare_write decrypt the page
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:44:52 -0600
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> When the page is not up to date, ecryptfs_prepare_write() should be
> acting much like ecryptfs_readpage(). This includes the painfully
> obvious step of actually decrypting the page contents read from the
> lower encrypted file.
> 
> Note that this patch resolves a bug in eCryptfs in 2.6.24 that one can
> produce with these steps:

Should it go in -stable then?

josh
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