FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fscrypt: fix renaming and linking special files" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:20:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: fix renaming and linking special files

Attempting to link a device node, named pipe, or socket file into an encrypted directory through rename(2) or link(2) always failed with EPERM. This happened because fscrypt_has_permitted_context() saw that the file was unencrypted and forbid creating the link. This behavior was unexpected because such files are never encrypted; only regular files, directories, and symlinks can be encrypted.

To fix this, make fscrypt_has_permitted_context() always return true on special files.

This will be covered by a test in my encryption xfstests patchset.

index 6ed7c2eebeec..d6cd7ea4851d 100644
@@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ int fscrypt_has_permitted_context(struct inode *parent, struct inode *child)
 		BUG_ON(1);
 	}
 
+	/* No restrictions on file types which are never encrypted */
+	if (!S_ISREG(child->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(child->i_mode) &&
+	    !S_ISLNK(child->i_mode))
+		return 1;
+
 	/* no restrictions if the parent directory is not encrypted */
 	if (!parent->i_sb->s_cop->is_encrypted(parent))
 		return 1;