This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: do not advertise encryption support when disabled
to the 4.4-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:
ext4-do-not-advertise-encryption-support-when-disabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c4704a4fbe834eee4109ca064131d440941f6235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:24:51 -0400
Subject: ext4: do not advertise encryption support when disabled
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c4704a4fbe834eee4109ca064131d440941f6235 upstream.
The sysfs file /sys/fs/ext4/features/encryption was present on kernels
compiled with CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION=n. This was misleading because
such kernels do not actually support ext4 encryption. Therefore, only
provide this file on kernels compiled with CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION=y.
Note: since the ext4 feature files are all hardcoded to have a contents
of "supported", it really is the presence or absence of the file that is
significant, not the contents (and this change reflects that).
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
@@ -223,14 +223,18 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] =
EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(lazy_itable_init);
EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(batched_discard);
EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(meta_bg_resize);
+#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(encryption);
+#endif
EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(metadata_csum_seed);
static struct attribute *ext4_feat_attrs[] = {
ATTR_LIST(lazy_itable_init),
ATTR_LIST(batched_discard),
ATTR_LIST(meta_bg_resize),
+#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
ATTR_LIST(encryption),
+#endif
ATTR_LIST(metadata_csum_seed),
NULL,
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ext4-do-not-advertise-encryption-support-when-disabled.patch
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