Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support

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On 01/05/2020 08:30, Eric Biggers wrote:
> btrfs also has an inode flag BTRFS_INODE_NODATASUM, which looks scary as it
> results in the file being unauthenticated.  Presumably the authentication of the
> filesystem metadata is supposed to prevent this flag from being maliciously
> cleared?  It might be a good idea to forbid this flag if the filesystem is using
> the authentication feature.

Yes indeed, authentication and nodatasum must be mutually exclusive.

Thanks for spotting.




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