On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 04:13:24PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
> 
> btrfs, which is planning to add support for fscrypt, has a variety of
> asynchronous things it does with inodes that can potentially last until
> ->put_super, when it shuts everything down and cleans up all async work.
> Consequently, btrfs needs the call to fscrypt_destroy_keyring() to
> happen either after or within ->put_super.
> 
> Meanwhile, f2fs needs the call to fscrypt_destroy_keyring() to happen
> either *before* or within ->put_super, due to the dependency of
> f2fs_get_devices() on ->s_fs_info still existing.
> 
> To meet both of these constraints, this patch moves the keyring
> destruction into ->put_super.  This gives filesystems some flexibility
> into when it is done.  This does mean that the VFS no longer handles it
> automatically for filesystems, which is unfortunate, though this is in
> line with most of the other fscrypt functions.
> 
> (The fscrypt keyring destruction has now been changed an embarrassingly
> large number of times.  Hopefully this will be The Last Change That
> Finally Gets It Right!)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com>

Thanks,

Josef

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