Re: cleanup truncate handling in ecryptfs v2

On 2026-04-07 07:50:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 04:02:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Tyler,
> > 
> > this series cleans up the truncate handling in ecryptfs.  I did
> > it as preparation for some changes into size changing truncate
> > VFS interfaces I'm looking into in the moment.  The changes have
> > passed the regression test suite in the userspace ecryptfs
> > repository and against the ecryptfs next branch.
> 
> So right after I posted this I came up with an idea how to better
> pass arguments to the low-level truncate helper as the size + lower_ia
> kept irking me.  The branch here:
> 
> https://git.infradead.org/?p=users/hch/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ecryptfs-truncate
> 
> simply only passed the upper ia, which feels a lot cleaner.  It passes
> the ecryptfs test suite, but otherwise is hot off the press.  If you
> like the new version I'll send it out tomorrow.
> 

Yep, that's the right thing to do. Thanks for give it more thought.

I only had time to do a diff between v1 and this branch. The code
changes look good. One tiny typo in a code comment:

s/file systen/file system/

Tyler