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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c index 2bf52033538..ff981503b3e 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c @@ -1590,8 +1590,8 @@ int ecryptfs_read_and_validate_xattr_region(struct dentry *dentry, */ int ecryptfs_read_metadata(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry) { - int rc = 0; - char *page_virt = NULL; + int rc; + char *page_virt; struct inode *ecryptfs_inode = ecryptfs_dentry->d_inode; struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_inode_to_private(ecryptfs_inode)->crypt_stat; @@ -1616,6 +1616,7 @@ int ecryptfs_read_metadata(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry) ecryptfs_dentry, ECRYPTFS_VALIDATE_HEADER_SIZE); if (rc) { + /* metadata is not in the file header, so try xattrs */ memset(page_virt, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); rc = ecryptfs_read_xattr_region(page_virt, ecryptfs_inode); if (rc) { |