Commit e538b098 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers
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fscrypt: remove mention of symlink st_size quirk from documentation 

Now that the correct st_size is reported for encrypted symlinks on all
filesystems, update the documentation accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210702065350.209646-6-ebiggers@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst

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@@ -1063,11 +1063,6 @@ astute users may notice some differences in behavior: 


- DAX (Direct Access) is not supported on encrypted files.



- The st_size of an encrypted symlink will not necessarily give the

  length of the symlink target as required by POSIX.  It will actually

  give the length of the ciphertext, which will be slightly longer

  than the plaintext due to NUL-padding and an extra 2-byte overhead.



- The maximum length of an encrypted symlink is 2 bytes shorter than

  the maximum length of an unencrypted symlink.  For example, on an

  EXT4 filesystem with a 4K block size, unencrypted symlinks can be up