4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
commit 42d97eb0ade31e1bc537d086842f5d6e766d9d51 upstream.
Attempting to link a device node, named pipe, or socket file into an
encrypted directory through rename(2) or link(2) always failed with
EPERM. This happened because fscrypt_has_permitted_context() saw that
the file was unencrypted and forbid creating the link. This behavior
was unexpected because such files are never encrypted; only regular
files, directories, and symlinks can be encrypted.
To fix this, make fscrypt_has_permitted_context() always return true on
special files.
This will be covered by a test in my encryption xfstests patchset.
Fixes: 9bd8212f981e ("ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt
support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/crypto/policy.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/crypto/policy.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ int fscrypt_has_permitted_context(struct
BUG_ON(1);
}
+ /* No restrictions on file types which are never encrypted */
+ if (!S_ISREG(child->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(child->i_mode) &&
+ !S_ISLNK(child->i_mode))
+ return 1;
+
/* no restrictions if the parent directory is not encrypted */
if (!parent->i_sb->s_cop->is_encrypted(parent))
return 1;
