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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2018-02-05 12:55:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2018-02-05 12:55:38 -0700 |
| commit | 9e05c864993c5442227f83ae1694a737d7a102ed (patch) | |
| tree | e35b60bb3c0c179f147e9acaad5444f1e5d9117e /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 3c15f3f545afa320c5e3822825a9a53c664776b6 (diff) | |
| parent | 35277995e17919ab838beae765f440674e8576eb (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into test
* master: (688 commits)
dt-bindings: mailbox: qcom: Document the APCS clock binding
mailbox: qcom: Create APCS child device for clock controller
mailbox: qcom: Convert APCS IPC driver to use regmap
KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
pinctrl: remove include file from <linux/device.h>
firmware: dmi: handle missing DMI data gracefully
firmware: dmi_scan: Fix handling of empty DMI strings
firmware: dmi_scan: Drop dmi_initialized
firmware: dmi: Optimize dmi_matches
Revert "defer call to mem_cgroup_sk_alloc()"
soreuseport: fix mem leak in reuseport_add_sock()
net: qlge: use memmove instead of skb_copy_to_linear_data
net: qed: use correct strncpy() size
net: cxgb4: avoid memcpy beyond end of source buffer
cls_u32: add missing RCU annotation.
r8152: set rx mode early when linking on
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 10 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt index 3be3b266be41..70cb68bed2e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to implement direct_access. These block devices may be used for inspiration: -- axonram: Axon DDR2 device driver - brd: RAM backed block device driver - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver - pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 8cd63e16f171..7f628b9f7c4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs data_err=abort Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file data buffer in ordered mode. -grpid Give objects the same group ID as their creator. +grpid New objects have the group ID of their parent. bsdgroups nogrpid (*) New objects have the group ID of their creator. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 776ddc655f79..cfbc18f0d9c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -448,8 +448,14 @@ astute users may notice some differences in behavior: - The st_size of an encrypted symlink will not necessarily give the length of the symlink target as required by POSIX. It will actually - give the length of the ciphertext, which may be slightly longer than - the plaintext due to the NUL-padding. + give the length of the ciphertext, which will be slightly longer + than the plaintext due to NUL-padding and an extra 2-byte overhead. + +- The maximum length of an encrypted symlink is 2 bytes shorter than + the maximum length of an unencrypted symlink. For example, on an + EXT4 filesystem with a 4K block size, unencrypted symlinks can be up + to 4095 bytes long, while encrypted symlinks can only be up to 4093 + bytes long (both lengths excluding the terminating null). Note that mmap *is* supported. This is possible because the pagecache for an encrypted file contains the plaintext, not the ciphertext. |