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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/crypto, branch v5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:20+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:55+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T04:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T04:28:04+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean up fscrypt's dcache revalidation support, and other
  miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in -&gt;i_link
  vfs: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_link
  fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext
  fscrypt: only set dentry_operations on ciphertext dentries
  fs, fscrypt: clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME when unaliasing directory
  fscrypt: fix race allowing rename() and link() of ciphertext dentries
  fscrypt: clean up and improve dentry revalidation
  fscrypt: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_crypt_info
  fscrypt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() when decryption fails
  fscrypt: drop inode argument from fscrypt_get_ctx()
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean up fscrypt's dcache revalidation support, and other
  miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in -&gt;i_link
  vfs: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_link
  fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext
  fscrypt: only set dentry_operations on ciphertext dentries
  fs, fscrypt: clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME when unaliasing directory
  fscrypt: fix race allowing rename() and link() of ciphertext dentries
  fscrypt: clean up and improve dentry revalidation
  fscrypt: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_crypt_info
  fscrypt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() when decryption fails
  fscrypt: drop inode argument from fscrypt_get_ctx()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.2/block-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T01:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T01:14:36+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing major in this series, just fixes and improvements all over the
  map. This contains:

   - Series of fixes for sed-opal (David, Jonas)

   - Fixes and performance tweaks for BFQ (via Paolo)

   - Set of fixes for bcache (via Coly)

   - Set of fixes for md (via Song)

   - Enabling multi-page for passthrough requests (Ming)

   - Queue release fix series (Ming)

   - Device notification improvements (Martin)

   - Propagate underlying device rotational status in loop (Holger)

   - Removal of mtip32xx trim support, which has been disabled for years
     (Christoph)

   - Improvement and cleanup of nvme command handling (Christoph)

   - Add block SPDX tags (Christoph)

   - Cleanup/hardening of bio/bvec iteration (Christoph)

   - A few NVMe pull requests (Christoph)

   - Removal of CONFIG_LBDAF (Christoph)

   - Various little fixes here and there"

* tag 'for-5.2/block-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (164 commits)
  block: fix mismerge in bvec_advance
  block: don't drain in-progress dispatch in blk_cleanup_queue()
  blk-mq: move cancel of hctx-&gt;run_work into blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release
  blk-mq: always free hctx after request queue is freed
  blk-mq: split blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx into two parts
  blk-mq: free hw queue's resource in hctx's release handler
  blk-mq: move cancel of requeue_work into blk_mq_release
  blk-mq: grab .q_usage_counter when queuing request from plug code path
  block: fix function name in comment
  nvmet: protect discovery change log event list iteration
  nvme: mark nvme_core_init and nvme_core_exit static
  nvme: move command size checks to the core
  nvme-fabrics: check more command sizes
  nvme-pci: check more command sizes
  nvme-pci: remove an unneeded variable initialization
  nvme-pci: unquiesce admin queue on shutdown
  nvme-pci: shutdown on timeout during deletion
  nvme-pci: fix psdt field for single segment sgls
  nvme-multipath: don't print ANA group state by default
  nvme-multipath: split bios with the ns_head bio_set before submitting
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing major in this series, just fixes and improvements all over the
  map. This contains:

   - Series of fixes for sed-opal (David, Jonas)

   - Fixes and performance tweaks for BFQ (via Paolo)

   - Set of fixes for bcache (via Coly)

   - Set of fixes for md (via Song)

   - Enabling multi-page for passthrough requests (Ming)

   - Queue release fix series (Ming)

   - Device notification improvements (Martin)

   - Propagate underlying device rotational status in loop (Holger)

   - Removal of mtip32xx trim support, which has been disabled for years
     (Christoph)

   - Improvement and cleanup of nvme command handling (Christoph)

   - Add block SPDX tags (Christoph)

   - Cleanup/hardening of bio/bvec iteration (Christoph)

   - A few NVMe pull requests (Christoph)

   - Removal of CONFIG_LBDAF (Christoph)

   - Various little fixes here and there"

* tag 'for-5.2/block-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (164 commits)
  block: fix mismerge in bvec_advance
  block: don't drain in-progress dispatch in blk_cleanup_queue()
  blk-mq: move cancel of hctx-&gt;run_work into blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release
  blk-mq: always free hctx after request queue is freed
  blk-mq: split blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx into two parts
  blk-mq: free hw queue's resource in hctx's release handler
  blk-mq: move cancel of requeue_work into blk_mq_release
  blk-mq: grab .q_usage_counter when queuing request from plug code path
  block: fix function name in comment
  nvmet: protect discovery change log event list iteration
  nvme: mark nvme_core_init and nvme_core_exit static
  nvme: move command size checks to the core
  nvme-fabrics: check more command sizes
  nvme-pci: check more command sizes
  nvme-pci: remove an unneeded variable initialization
  nvme-pci: unquiesce admin queue on shutdown
  nvme-pci: shutdown on timeout during deletion
  nvme-pci: fix psdt field for single segment sgls
  nvme-multipath: don't print ANA group state by default
  nvme-multipath: split bios with the ns_head bio_set before submitting
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: remove the i argument to bio_for_each_segment_all</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T15:26:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-25T07:03:00+00:00</published>
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We only have two callers that need the integer loop iterator, and they
can easily maintain it themselves.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We only have two callers that need the integer loop iterator, and they
can easily maintain it themselves.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags</title>
<updated>2019-04-25T07:38:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-15T00:37:09+00:00</published>
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The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.

With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP.  These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping.  For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API.  However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.

Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk.  It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.

Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.

With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP.  These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping.  For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API.  However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.

Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk.  It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.

Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in -&gt;i_link</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T16:43:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-10T20:21:15+00:00</published>
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Path lookups that traverse encrypted symlink(s) are very slow because
each encrypted symlink needs to be decrypted each time it's followed.
This also involves dropping out of rcu-walk mode.

Make encrypted symlinks faster by caching the decrypted symlink target
in -&gt;i_link.  The first call to fscrypt_get_symlink() sets it.  Then,
the existing VFS path lookup code uses the non-NULL -&gt;i_link to take the
fast path where -&gt;get_link() isn't called, and lookups in rcu-walk mode
remain in rcu-walk mode.

Also set -&gt;i_link immediately when a new encrypted symlink is created.

To safely free the symlink target after an RCU grace period has elapsed,
introduce a new function fscrypt_free_inode(), and make the relevant
filesystems call it just before actually freeing the inode.

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Path lookups that traverse encrypted symlink(s) are very slow because
each encrypted symlink needs to be decrypted each time it's followed.
This also involves dropping out of rcu-walk mode.

Make encrypted symlinks faster by caching the decrypted symlink target
in -&gt;i_link.  The first call to fscrypt_get_symlink() sets it.  Then,
the existing VFS path lookup code uses the non-NULL -&gt;i_link to take the
fast path where -&gt;get_link() isn't called, and lookups in rcu-walk mode
remain in rcu-walk mode.

Also set -&gt;i_link immediately when a new encrypted symlink is created.

To safely free the symlink target after an RCU grace period has elapsed,
introduce a new function fscrypt_free_inode(), and make the relevant
filesystems call it just before actually freeing the inode.

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T14:07:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-20T18:39:13+00:00</published>
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-&gt;lookup() in an encrypted directory begins as follows:

1. fscrypt_prepare_lookup():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is unavailable, mark the dentry as a ciphertext name
       via d_flags.
2. fscrypt_setup_filename():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is available, encrypt the name (treated as a plaintext
       name) to get the on-disk name.  Otherwise decode the name
       (treated as a ciphertext name) to get the on-disk name.

But if the key is concurrently added, it may be found at (2a) but not at
(1a).  In this case, the dentry will be wrongly marked as a ciphertext
name even though it was actually treated as plaintext.

This will cause the dentry to be wrongly invalidated on the next lookup,
potentially causing problems.  For example, if the racy -&gt;lookup() was
part of sys_mount(), then the new mount will be detached when anything
tries to access it.  This is despite the mountpoint having a plaintext
path, which should remain valid now that the key was added.

Of course, this is only possible if there's a userspace race.  Still,
the additional kernel-side race is confusing and unexpected.

Close the kernel-side race by changing fscrypt_prepare_lookup() to also
set the on-disk filename (step 2b), consistent with the d_flags update.

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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-&gt;lookup() in an encrypted directory begins as follows:

1. fscrypt_prepare_lookup():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is unavailable, mark the dentry as a ciphertext name
       via d_flags.
2. fscrypt_setup_filename():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is available, encrypt the name (treated as a plaintext
       name) to get the on-disk name.  Otherwise decode the name
       (treated as a ciphertext name) to get the on-disk name.

But if the key is concurrently added, it may be found at (2a) but not at
(1a).  In this case, the dentry will be wrongly marked as a ciphertext
name even though it was actually treated as plaintext.

This will cause the dentry to be wrongly invalidated on the next lookup,
potentially causing problems.  For example, if the racy -&gt;lookup() was
part of sys_mount(), then the new mount will be detached when anything
tries to access it.  This is despite the mountpoint having a plaintext
path, which should remain valid now that the key was added.

Of course, this is only possible if there's a userspace race.  Still,
the additional kernel-side race is confusing and unexpected.

Close the kernel-side race by changing fscrypt_prepare_lookup() to also
set the on-disk filename (step 2b), consistent with the d_flags update.

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: only set dentry_operations on ciphertext dentries</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T14:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-20T18:39:12+00:00</published>
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Plaintext dentries are always valid, so only set fscrypt_d_ops on
ciphertext dentries.

Besides marginally improved performance, this allows overlayfs to use an
fscrypt-encrypted upperdir, provided that all the following are true:

    (1) The fscrypt encryption key is placed in the keyring before
	mounting overlayfs, and remains while the overlayfs is mounted.

    (2) The overlayfs workdir uses the same encryption policy.

    (3) No dentries for the ciphertext names of subdirectories have been
	created in the upperdir or workdir yet.  (Since otherwise
	d_splice_alias() will reuse the old dentry with -&gt;d_op set.)

One potential use case is using an ephemeral encryption key to encrypt
all files created or changed by a container, so that they can be
securely erased ("crypto-shredded") after the container stops.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Plaintext dentries are always valid, so only set fscrypt_d_ops on
ciphertext dentries.

Besides marginally improved performance, this allows overlayfs to use an
fscrypt-encrypted upperdir, provided that all the following are true:

    (1) The fscrypt encryption key is placed in the keyring before
	mounting overlayfs, and remains while the overlayfs is mounted.

    (2) The overlayfs workdir uses the same encryption policy.

    (3) No dentries for the ciphertext names of subdirectories have been
	created in the upperdir or workdir yet.  (Since otherwise
	d_splice_alias() will reuse the old dentry with -&gt;d_op set.)

One potential use case is using an ephemeral encryption key to encrypt
all files created or changed by a container, so that they can be
securely erased ("crypto-shredded") after the container stops.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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