Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:58:11 +0100 | Subject | Re: overlayfs vs. fscrypt |
| |
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:47 PM Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2019, 13:36:02 CET schrieb Miklos Szeredi: > > I don't get it. Does fscrypt try to check permissions via > > ->d_revalidate? Why is it not doing that via ->permission()? > > Please let me explain. Suppose we have a fscrypto directory /mnt and > I *don't* have the key. > > When reading the directory contents of /mnt will return an encrypted filename. > e.g. > # ls /mnt > +mcQ46ne5Y8U6JMV9Wdq2C
Why does showing the encrypted contents make any sense? It could just return -EPERM on all operations?
Thanks, Miklos
| |