Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: move ioctl processing more fully into common code

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Eric,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Multiple bugs were recently fixed in the "set encryption policy" ioctl.
> To make it clear that fscrypt_process_policy() and fscrypt_get_policy()
> implement ioctls and therefore their implementations must take standard
> security and correctness precautions, rename them to
> fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() and fscrypt_ioctl_get_policy().  Make the
> latter take in a struct file * to make it consistent with the former.
>
> In addition, make the common functions do the copies to and from
> userspace rather than duplicating this code within each filesystem, and
> memset the policy to 0 to make it clear there is no stack leak.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/crypto/policy.c       | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  fs/ext4/ext4.h           |  4 ++--
>  fs/ext4/ioctl.c          | 34 +++++-----------------------------
>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h           |  4 ++--
>  fs/f2fs/file.c           | 19 ++-----------------
>  include/linux/fscrypto.h | 12 ++++++------
>  6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

Hmm, are you sure the change is worth it?
The patch basically moves a copy_from/to_user() from ext4/f2fs into fscrypto.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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