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A couple of years ago there was a discussion on lkml under the thread 'PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch' about zapping deleted data in the filesystem as a security mechanism. The discussion wandered off into how 'chattr +s' could be implemented and whether encrypting filesystems wouldn't be a better solution to the problem. I've been maintaining a

[Re-sending to the ext3 list, with minor edits] I'm in the process of fixing errors generated by the Coverity tool on the Linux kernel, and I would like your comment on a set of problems reported in ext3. The main issue reported is not checking the return code of ext3_journal_get_write_access() in various places. I would like to know if there should be error handling in these cases. The

This set of patches includes a few dlm related fixes from Kurt, and a small, trivial cleanup by Adrian. Also included are three disk allocation patches by me - two fixes and one incremental improvement in our allocation strategy. These have been around since early June, so I think they've had enough testing that they can go upstream. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of

Hi all, this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for non-coherent DMA to pages with incurring bounce buffering over can finally be properly supported. I'm still a

Hi all, this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for non-coherent DMA to pages with incurring bounce buffering over can finally be properly supported. As a follow up I

Hi all, this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for non-coherent DMA to pages with incurring bounce buffering over can finally be properly supported. I'm still a