This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fscrypto: require write access to mount to set encryption policy to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fscrypto-require-write-access-to-mount-to-set-encryption-policy.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ba63f23d69a3a10e7e527a02702023da68ef8a6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:20:38 -0700 Subject: fscrypto: require write access to mount to set encryption policy From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ba63f23d69a3a10e7e527a02702023da68ef8a6d upstream. Since setting an encryption policy requires writing metadata to the filesystem, it should be guarded by mnt_want_write/mnt_drop_write. Otherwise, a user could cause a write to a frozen or readonly filesystem. This was handled correctly by f2fs but not by ext4. Make fscrypt_process_policy() handle it rather than relying on the filesystem to get it right. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.1+; check fs/{ext4,f2fs} Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -782,7 +782,13 @@ resizefs_out: goto encryption_policy_out; } + err = mnt_want_write_file(filp); + if (err) + goto encryption_policy_out; + err = ext4_process_policy(&policy, inode); + + mnt_drop_write_file(filp); encryption_policy_out: return err; #else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/fscrypto-require-write-access-to-mount-to-set-encryption-policy.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html