eCryptfs: Remove unnecessary grow_file() function

When creating a new eCryptfs file, the crypto metadata is written out
and then the lower file was being "grown" with 4 kB of encrypted zeroes.
I suspect that growing the encrypted file was to prevent an information
leak that the unencrypted file was empty. However, the unencrypted file
size is stored, in plaintext, in the metadata so growing the file is
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index bfd8b680e648..98a2a314ea68 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -1389,6 +1389,7 @@ int ecryptfs_write_metadata(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry)
                 rc = -ENOMEM;
                 goto out;
         }
+        /* Zeroed page ensures the in-header unencrypted i_size is set to 0 */
         rc = ecryptfs_write_headers_virt(virt, virt_len, &size, crypt_stat,
                                          ecryptfs_dentry);
         if (unlikely(rc)) {