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<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2017-07-09T16:31:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T16:31:22+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir
  feature, which allows ext4 directories to support over 2 billion
  directory entries (assuming ~64 byte file names; in practice, users
  will run into practical performance limits first.) This feature was
  originally written by the Lustre team, and credit goes to Artem
  Blagodarenko from Seagate for getting this feature upstream.

  The second major major feature allows ext4 to support extended
  attribute values up to 64k. This feature was also originally from
  Lustre, and has been enhanced by Tahsin Erdogan from Google with a
  deduplication feature so that if multiple files have the same xattr
  value (for example, Windows ACL's stored by Samba), only one copy will
  be stored on disk for encoding and caching efficiency.

  We also have the usual set of bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits)
  ext4: fix spelling mistake: "prellocated" -&gt; "preallocated"
  ext4: fix __ext4_new_inode() journal credits calculation
  ext4: skip ext4_init_security() and encryption on ea_inodes
  fs: generic_block_bmap(): initialize all of the fields in the temp bh
  ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks
  ext4: require key for truncate(2) of encrypted file
  ext4: don't bother checking for encryption key in -&gt;mmap()
  ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store
  ext4: fix off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems
  ext4: return EFSBADCRC if a bad checksum error is found in ext4_find_entry()
  ext4: return EIO on read error in ext4_find_entry
  ext4: forbid encrypting root directory
  ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions
  ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: add nombcache mount option
  ext4: strong binding of xattr inode references
  ext4: eliminate xattr entry e_hash recalculation for removes
  ext4: reserve space for xattr entries/names
  quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges
  ext4: xattr inode deduplication
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir
  feature, which allows ext4 directories to support over 2 billion
  directory entries (assuming ~64 byte file names; in practice, users
  will run into practical performance limits first.) This feature was
  originally written by the Lustre team, and credit goes to Artem
  Blagodarenko from Seagate for getting this feature upstream.

  The second major major feature allows ext4 to support extended
  attribute values up to 64k. This feature was also originally from
  Lustre, and has been enhanced by Tahsin Erdogan from Google with a
  deduplication feature so that if multiple files have the same xattr
  value (for example, Windows ACL's stored by Samba), only one copy will
  be stored on disk for encoding and caching efficiency.

  We also have the usual set of bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits)
  ext4: fix spelling mistake: "prellocated" -&gt; "preallocated"
  ext4: fix __ext4_new_inode() journal credits calculation
  ext4: skip ext4_init_security() and encryption on ea_inodes
  fs: generic_block_bmap(): initialize all of the fields in the temp bh
  ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks
  ext4: require key for truncate(2) of encrypted file
  ext4: don't bother checking for encryption key in -&gt;mmap()
  ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store
  ext4: fix off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems
  ext4: return EFSBADCRC if a bad checksum error is found in ext4_find_entry()
  ext4: return EIO on read error in ext4_find_entry
  ext4: forbid encrypting root directory
  ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions
  ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: add nombcache mount option
  ext4: strong binding of xattr inode references
  ext4: eliminate xattr entry e_hash recalculation for removes
  ext4: reserve space for xattr entries/names
  quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges
  ext4: xattr inode deduplication
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2017-07-09T16:03:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T16:03:31+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add support for 128-bit AES and some cleanups to fscrypt"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: make -&gt;dummy_context() return bool
  fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC
  fscrypt: inline fscrypt_free_filename()
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<pre>
Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add support for 128-bit AES and some cleanups to fscrypt"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: make -&gt;dummy_context() return bool
  fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC
  fscrypt: inline fscrypt_free_filename()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00</published>
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Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
  that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
  may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
  series.

  The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
  errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
  will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
  writes have made it to the backing store.

  For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
  in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
  writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
  side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
  model really sucks for userland.

  Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
  error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
  (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
  several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
  writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
  another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
  setups that coordination may even not be possible.

  But wait...it gets worse!

  The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
  call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
  and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
  callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
  userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
  back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
  because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
  (incorrectly) return 0.

  This pile aims to do three things:

   1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
      reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
      regardless of what internal callers are doing

   2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
      the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
      but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
      anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.

   3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
      error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
      lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
      filesystems should do in this situation.

  To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
  builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
  all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
  infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.

  Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
  There is a lot of work remaining here:

   1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
      initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
      simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
      filesystem trees.

   2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
      detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
      draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
      prime time yet.

  This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
  interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
      https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
  xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
  ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
  fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
  block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
  dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
  Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
  mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
  fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
  lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
  mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
  mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
  jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
  buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
  fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
  buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
  mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
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Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
  that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
  may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
  series.

  The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
  errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
  will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
  writes have made it to the backing store.

  For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
  in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
  writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
  side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
  model really sucks for userland.

  Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
  error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
  (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
  several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
  writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
  another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
  setups that coordination may even not be possible.

  But wait...it gets worse!

  The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
  call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
  and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
  callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
  userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
  back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
  because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
  (incorrectly) return 0.

  This pile aims to do three things:

   1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
      reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
      regardless of what internal callers are doing

   2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
      the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
      but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
      anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.

   3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
      error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
      lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
      filesystems should do in this situation.

  To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
  builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
  all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
  infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.

  Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
  There is a lot of work remaining here:

   1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
      initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
      simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
      filesystem trees.

   2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
      detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
      draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
      prime time yet.

  This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
  interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
      https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
  xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
  ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
  fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
  block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
  dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
  Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
  mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
  fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
  lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
  mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
  mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
  jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
  buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
  fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
  buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
  mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix spelling mistake: "prellocated" -&gt; "preallocated"</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T19:28:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T19:28:45+00:00</published>
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Trivial fix to spelling mistake in mb_debug debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Trivial fix to spelling mistake in mb_debug debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T11:02:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T11:02:30+00:00</published>
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Add a call to filemap_report_wb_err at the end of ext4_sync_file. This
will ensure that we check and advance the errseq_t in the file, which
allows us to track and report errors on all open fds when they occur.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a call to filemap_report_wb_err at the end of ext4_sync_file. This
will ensure that we check and advance the errseq_t in the file, which
allows us to track and report errors on all open fds when they occur.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix __ext4_new_inode() journal credits calculation</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T04:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T04:01:59+00:00</published>
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ea_inode feature allows creating extended attributes that are up to
64k in size. Update __ext4_new_inode() to pick increased credit limits.

To avoid overallocating too many journal credits, update
__ext4_xattr_set_credits() to make a distinction between xattr create
vs update. This helps __ext4_new_inode() because all attributes are
known to be new, so we can save credits that are normally needed to
delete old values.

Also, have fscrypt specify its maximum context size so that we don't
end up allocating credits for 64k size.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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ea_inode feature allows creating extended attributes that are up to
64k in size. Update __ext4_new_inode() to pick increased credit limits.

To avoid overallocating too many journal credits, update
__ext4_xattr_set_credits() to make a distinction between xattr create
vs update. This helps __ext4_new_inode() because all attributes are
known to be new, so we can save credits that are normally needed to
delete old values.

Also, have fscrypt specify its maximum context size so that we don't
end up allocating credits for 64k size.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: skip ext4_init_security() and encryption on ea_inodes</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T04:00:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T04:00:59+00:00</published>
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Extended attribute inodes are internal to ext4. Adding encryption/security
related attributes on them would mean dealing with nested calls into ea code.
Since they have no direct exposure to user mode, just avoid creating ea
entries for them.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Extended attribute inodes are internal to ext4. Adding encryption/security
related attributes on them would mean dealing with nested calls into ea code.
Since they have no direct exposure to user mode, just avoid creating ea
entries for them.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks</title>
<updated>2017-07-04T04:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T04:11:21+00:00</published>
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ext4_inode_info-&gt;i_data is the storage area for 4 types of data:

  a) Extents data
  b) Inline data
  c) Block map
  d) Fast symlink data (symlink length &lt; 60)

Extents data case is positively identified by EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS flag.
Inline data case is also obvious because of EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA
flag.

Distinguishing c) and d) however requires additional logic. This
currently relies on i_blocks count. After subtracting external xattr
block from i_blocks, if it is greater than 0 then we know that some
data blocks exist, so there must be a block map.

This logic got broken after ea_inode feature was added. That feature
charges the data blocks of external xattr inodes to the referencing
inode and so adds them to the i_blocks. To fix this, we could subtract
ea_inode blocks by iterating through all xattr entries and then check
whether remaining i_blocks count is zero. Besides being complicated,
this won't change the fact that the current way of distinguishing
between c) and d) is fragile.

The alternative solution is to test whether i_size is less than 60 to
determine fast symlink case. ext4_symlink() uses the same test to decide
whether to store the symlink in i_data. There is one caveat to address
before this can work though.

If an inode's i_nlink is zero during eviction, its i_size is set to
zero and its data is truncated. If system crashes before inode is removed
from the orphan list, next boot orphan cleanup may find the inode with
zero i_size. So, a symlink that had its data stored in a block may now
appear to be a fast symlink. The solution used in this patch is to treat
i_size = 0 as a non-fast symlink case. A zero sized symlink is not legal
so the only time this can happen is the mentioned scenario. This is also
logically correct because a i_size = 0 symlink has no data stored in
i_data.

Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
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ext4_inode_info-&gt;i_data is the storage area for 4 types of data:

  a) Extents data
  b) Inline data
  c) Block map
  d) Fast symlink data (symlink length &lt; 60)

Extents data case is positively identified by EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS flag.
Inline data case is also obvious because of EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA
flag.

Distinguishing c) and d) however requires additional logic. This
currently relies on i_blocks count. After subtracting external xattr
block from i_blocks, if it is greater than 0 then we know that some
data blocks exist, so there must be a block map.

This logic got broken after ea_inode feature was added. That feature
charges the data blocks of external xattr inodes to the referencing
inode and so adds them to the i_blocks. To fix this, we could subtract
ea_inode blocks by iterating through all xattr entries and then check
whether remaining i_blocks count is zero. Besides being complicated,
this won't change the fact that the current way of distinguishing
between c) and d) is fragile.

The alternative solution is to test whether i_size is less than 60 to
determine fast symlink case. ext4_symlink() uses the same test to decide
whether to store the symlink in i_data. There is one caveat to address
before this can work though.

If an inode's i_nlink is zero during eviction, its i_size is set to
zero and its data is truncated. If system crashes before inode is removed
from the orphan list, next boot orphan cleanup may find the inode with
zero i_size. So, a symlink that had its data stored in a block may now
appear to be a fast symlink. The solution used in this patch is to treat
i_size = 0 as a non-fast symlink case. A zero sized symlink is not legal
so the only time this can happen is the mentioned scenario. This is also
logically correct because a i_size = 0 symlink has no data stored in
i_data.

Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
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<title>ext4: add support for passing in write hints for buffered writes</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T18:05:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-27T15:32:37+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: make -&gt;dummy_context() return bool</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T00:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T19:14:40+00:00</published>
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This makes it consistent with -&gt;is_encrypted(), -&gt;empty_dir(), and
fscrypt_dummy_context_enabled().

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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This makes it consistent with -&gt;is_encrypted(), -&gt;empty_dir(), and
fscrypt_dummy_context_enabled().

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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