On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 22:33:12 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Mounting a filesystem whose journal inode has the encrypt flag causes a
> NULL dereference in fscrypt_limit_io_blocks() when the 'inlinecrypt'
> mount option is used.
>
> The problem is that when jbd2_journal_init_inode() calls bmap(), it
> eventually finds its way into ext4_iomap_begin(), which calls
> fscrypt_limit_io_blocks(). fscrypt_limit_io_blocks() requires that if
> the inode is encrypted, then its encryption key must already be set up.
> That's not the case here, since the journal inode is never "opened" like
> a normal file would be. Hence the crash.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] ext4: don't allow journal inode to have encrypt flag
commit: 29cef51d8522c4d8953856afaffcaf1b754e4f6c
Best regards,
--
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
