This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: don't allow encrypted operations without keys 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-don-t-allow-encrypted-operations-without-keys.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 173b8439e1ba362007315868928bf9d26e5cc5a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:22:52 -0500 Subject: ext4: don't allow encrypted operations without keys From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 173b8439e1ba362007315868928bf9d26e5cc5a6 upstream. While we allow deletes without the key, the following should not be permitted: # cd /vdc/encrypted-dir-without-key # ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 22:35 6,LKNRJsp209FbXoSvJWzB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 Dec 27 22:35 uRJ5vJh9gE7vcomYMqTAyD # mv uRJ5vJh9gE7vcomYMqTAyD 6,LKNRJsp209FbXoSvJWzB Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -3506,6 +3506,12 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old int credits; u8 old_file_type; + if ((ext4_encrypted_inode(old_dir) && + !ext4_has_encryption_key(old_dir)) || + (ext4_encrypted_inode(new_dir) && + !ext4_has_encryption_key(new_dir))) + return -ENOKEY; + retval = dquot_initialize(old.dir); if (retval) return retval; @@ -3706,6 +3712,12 @@ static int ext4_cross_rename(struct inod u8 new_file_type; int retval; + if ((ext4_encrypted_inode(old_dir) && + !ext4_has_encryption_key(old_dir)) || + (ext4_encrypted_inode(new_dir) && + !ext4_has_encryption_key(new_dir))) + return -ENOKEY; + if ((ext4_encrypted_inode(old_dir) || ext4_encrypted_inode(new_dir)) && (old_dir != new_dir) && Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-don-t-allow-encrypted-operations-without-keys.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-data-corruption-for-mmap-writes.patch queue-4.4/ext4-don-t-clear-sgid-when-inheriting-acls.patch queue-4.4/f2fs-don-t-allow-encrypted-operations-without-keys.patch