On 15.12.2016 20:19, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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_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 <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Thanks,
//richard
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