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Subject[PATCH 12/26] ubifs: Massage assert in ubifs_xattr_set() wrt. fscrypto
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When we're creating a new inode in UBIFS the inode is not
yet exposed and fscrypto calls ubifs_xattr_set() without
holding the inode mutex. This is okay but ubifs_xattr_set()
has to know about this.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
---
fs/ubifs/xattr.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
index 54ec2b9fd506..d3b53c55ea39 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
@@ -286,7 +286,13 @@ int ubifs_xattr_set(struct inode *host, const char *name, const void *value,
union ubifs_key key;
int err;

- ubifs_assert(inode_is_locked(host));
+ /*
+ * Creating an encryption context is done unlocked since we
+ * operate on a new inode which is not visible to other users
+ * at this point.
+ */
+ if (strcmp(name, UBIFS_XATTR_NAME_ENCRYPTION_CONTEXT) != 0)
+ ubifs_assert(inode_is_locked(host));

if (size > UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA)
return -ERANGE;
--
2.7.3
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