From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 42d97eb0ade31e1bc537d086842f5d6e766d9d51 upstream. Please apply to 4.4-stable; it is already in 4.9-stable. This is a backport of the fix to fs/ext4/ and fs/f2fs/ for old kernels. 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> --- fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c | 6 ++++++ fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c b/fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c index 8a9feb341f31..dd561f916f0b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c +++ b/fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c @@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ int ext4_is_child_context_consistent_with_parent(struct inode *parent, WARN_ON(1); /* Should never happen */ return 0; } + + /* 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 (!ext4_encrypted_inode(parent)) return 1; diff --git a/fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c b/fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c index e504f548b64e..5bbd1989d5e6 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ int f2fs_is_child_context_consistent_with_parent(struct inode *parent, 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 (!f2fs_encrypted_inode(parent)) return 1; -- 2.12.0.367.g23dc2f6d3c-goog