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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2020-12-02 18:20:41 -0800
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2020-12-02 18:25:01 -0800
commita14d0b6764917b21ee6fdfd2a8a4c2920fbefcce (patch)
tree0f0fc7cb3f572bc7538768998d6305351850894a /fs/ext4
parent5b421f08801fe8247dec368b3d323958f419e769 (diff)
fscrypt: allow deleting files with unsupported encryption policy
Currently it's impossible to delete files that use an unsupported encryption policy, as the kernel will just return an error when performing any operation on the top-level encrypted directory, even just a path lookup into the directory or opening the directory for readdir. More specifically, this occurs in any of the following cases: - The encryption context has an unrecognized version number. Current kernels know about v1 and v2, but there could be more versions in the future. - The encryption context has unrecognized encryption modes (FSCRYPT_MODE_*) or flags (FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_*), an unrecognized combination of modes, or reserved bits set. - The encryption key has been added and the encryption modes are recognized but aren't available in the crypto API -- for example, a directory is encrypted with FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM but the kernel doesn't have CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM enabled. It's desirable to return errors for most operations on files that use an unsupported encryption policy, but the current behavior is too strict. We need to allow enough to delete files, so that people can't be stuck with undeletable files when downgrading kernel versions. That includes allowing directories to be listed and allowing dentries to be looked up. Fix this by modifying the key setup logic to treat an unsupported encryption policy in the same way as "key unavailable" in the cases that are required for a recursive delete to work: preparing for a readdir or a dentry lookup, revalidating a dentry, or checking whether an inode has the same encryption policy as its parent directory. Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201203022041.230976-10-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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