The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 42d97eb0ade31e1bc537d086842f5d6e766d9d51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:20:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: fix renaming and linking special files
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 <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/crypto/policy.c b/fs/crypto/policy.c
index 6ed7c2eebeec..d6cd7ea4851d 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/policy.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c
@@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ int fscrypt_has_permitted_context(struct inode *parent, struct inode *child)
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;
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