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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fscrypt.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fscrypt.h b/include/linux/fscrypt.h index c895b12737a1..b0037566ce30 100644 --- a/include/linux/fscrypt.h +++ b/include/linux/fscrypt.h @@ -73,12 +73,16 @@ struct fscrypt_operations { unsigned int flags; /* - * If set, this is a filesystem-specific key description prefix that - * will be accepted for "logon" keys for v1 fscrypt policies, in - * addition to the generic prefix "fscrypt:". This functionality is - * deprecated, so new filesystems shouldn't set this field. + * This field exists only for backwards compatibility reasons and should + * only be set by the filesystems that are setting it already. It + * contains the filesystem-specific key description prefix that is + * accepted for "logon" keys for v1 fscrypt policies. This + * functionality is deprecated in favor of the generic prefix + * "fscrypt:", which itself is deprecated in favor of the filesystem + * keyring ioctls such as FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY. Filesystems that + * are newly adding fscrypt support should not set this field. */ - const char *key_prefix; + const char *legacy_key_prefix; /* * Get the fscrypt context of the given inode. |