This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fscrypt: use ENOTDIR when setting encryption policy on nondirectory
to the 4.9-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:
fscrypt-use-enotdir-when-setting-encryption-policy-on-nondirectory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:12:45 -0800
Subject: fscrypt: use ENOTDIR when setting encryption policy on nondirectory
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit dffd0cfa06d4ed83bb3ae8eb067989ceec5d18e1 ]
As part of an effort to clean up fscrypt-related error codes, make
FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY fail with ENOTDIR when the file descriptor
does not refer to a directory. This is more descriptive than EINVAL,
which was ambiguous with some of the other error cases.
I am not aware of any users who might be relying on the previous error
code of EINVAL, which was never documented anywhere, and in some buggy
kernels did not exist at all as the S_ISDIR() check was missing.
This failure case will be exercised by an xfstest.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/crypto/policy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/crypto/policy.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int fscrypt_process_policy(struct file *
if (!inode_has_encryption_context(inode)) {
if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ ret = -ENOTDIR;
else if (!inode->i_sb->s_cop->empty_dir)
ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
else if (!inode->i_sb->s_cop->empty_dir(inode))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/fscrypt-use-enotdir-when-setting-encryption-policy-on-nondirectory.patch
queue-4.9/lib-mpi-call-cond_resched-from-mpi_powm-loop.patch
queue-4.9/fscrypt-use-enokey-when-file-cannot-be-created-w-o-key.patch
queue-4.9/fscrypt-lock-mutex-before-checking-for-bounce-page-pool.patch
queue-4.9/dm-bufio-fix-integer-overflow-when-limiting-maximum-cache-size.patch
queue-4.9/libceph-don-t-warn-if-user-tries-to-add-invalid-key.patch