Patch "fscrypto: only allow setting encryption policy on directories" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

fscrypto: only allow setting encryption policy on directories

to the 4.7-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:
fscrypto-only-allow-setting-encryption-policy-on-directories.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 11:36:39 -0700
Subject: fscrypto: only allow setting encryption policy on directories

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

commit 002ced4be6429918800ce3e41d5cbc2d7c01822c upstream.

The FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY ioctl allowed setting an encryption policy on nondirectory files. This was unintentional, and in the case of nonempty regular files did not behave as expected because existing data was not actually encrypted by the ioctl.

In the case of ext4, the user could also trigger filesystem errors in ->empty_dir(), e.g. due to mismatched "directory" checksums when the kernel incorrectly tried to interpret a regular file as a directory.

This bug affected ext4 with kernels v4.8-rc1 or later and f2fs with kernels v4.6 and later. It appears that older kernels only permitted directories and that the check was accidentally lost during the refactoring to share the file encryption code between ext4 and f2fs.

This patch restores the !S_ISDIR() check that was present in older kernels.

---
 fs/crypto/policy.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ int fscrypt_process_policy(struct inode
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!inode_has_encryption_context(inode)) {
+		if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		if (!inode->i_sb->s_cop->empty_dir)
 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		if (!inode->i_sb->s_cop->empty_dir(inode))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/fscrypto-add-authorization-check-for-setting-encryption-policy.patch queue-4.7/fscrypto-only-allow-setting-encryption-policy-on-directories.patch