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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Michael Halcrow	746f1e558b	eCryptfs: Privileged kthread for lower file opens ... eCryptfs would really like to have read-write access to all files in the lower filesystem. Right now, the persistent lower file may be opened read-only if the attempt to open it read-write fails. One way to keep from having to do that is to have a privileged kthread that can open the lower persistent file on behalf of the user opening the eCryptfs file; this patch implements this functionality. This patch will properly allow a less-privileged user to open the eCryptfs file, followed by a more-privileged user opening the eCryptfs file, with the first user only being able to read and the second user being able to both read and write. eCryptfs currently does this wrong; it will wind up calling vfs_write() on a file that was opened read-only. This is fixed in this patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>	2008-07-24 10:47:30 -07:00