Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Remove unnecessary page decrypt call

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 20:18:10 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:08:17 -0500
> Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The page decrypt calls in ecryptfs_write() are both pointless and
>> buggy.
>
> buggy enough to be fixed in 2.6.26? 2.6.25.x?

IMHO yes... fsx w/ mmap dies quickly ( < 100 ops) without this, and
survives nicely (to millions of ops+) with it in place.

-Eric
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