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[12/26] ubifs: Massage assert in ubifs_xattr_set() wrt. fscrypto

Message ID 1477054121-10198-13-git-send-email-richard@nod.at (mailing list archive)
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Richard Weinberger Oct. 21, 2016, 12:48 p.m. UTC
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(-)
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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;