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authorTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>2012-01-12 16:31:55 +0100
committerTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>2012-01-25 14:43:38 -0600
commitbb4503615d95d6826b7907986ad574e3157877e8 (patch)
treeb18866a880872b94c16452208f9073b20987505c /fs
parent30373dc0c87ffef68d5628e77d56ffb1fa22e1ee (diff)
ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary variable initialization
Removes unneeded variable initialization in ecryptfs_read_metadata(). Also adds a small comment to help explain metadata reading logic. [tyhicks@canonical.com: Pulled out of for-stable patch and wrote commit msg] Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c5
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) {