4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 42d97eb0ade31e1bc537d086842f5d6e766d9d51 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/crypto/policy.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/fs/crypto/policy.c +++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ int fscrypt_has_permitted_context(struct 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; -- 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