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Eric Biggers 9ce0151a47 ext4: forbid encrypting root directory
Currently it's possible to encrypt all files and directories on an ext4
filesystem by deleting everything, including lost+found, then setting an
encryption policy on the root directory.  However, this is incompatible
with e2fsck because e2fsck expects to find, create, and/or write to
lost+found and does not have access to any encryption keys.  Especially
problematic is that if e2fsck can't find lost+found, it will create it
without regard for whether the root directory is encrypted.  This is
wrong for obvious reasons, and it causes a later run of e2fsck to
consider the lost+found directory entry to be corrupted.

Encrypting the root directory may also be of limited use because it is
the "all-or-nothing" use case, for which dm-crypt can be used instead.
(By design, encryption policies are inherited and cannot be overridden;
so the root directory having an encryption policy implies that all files
and directories on the filesystem have that same encryption policy.)

In any case, encrypting the root directory is broken currently and must
not be allowed; so start returning an error if userspace requests it.
For now only do this in ext4, because f2fs and ubifs do not appear to
have the lost+found requirement.  We could move it into
fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() later if desired, though.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
2017-06-23 00:10:36 -04:00
arch x86: fix 32-bit case of __get_user_asm_u64() 2017-05-21 18:26:54 -07:00
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certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
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firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
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include quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges 2017-06-22 11:46:48 -04:00
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ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
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lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
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net xen: fixes for 4.12 rc2 2017-05-19 15:06:48 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
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security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
tools This fixes a bug caused by not cleaning up the new instance unique triggers 2017-05-20 23:39:03 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.