ACK: [PATCH 1/1] eCryptfs: Remove mmap from directory operations

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Wed Feb 15 18:09:54 UTC 2012


On 15/02/12 18:03, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 10:24 AM, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>>
>> Adrian reported that mkfontscale didn't work inside of eCryptfs mounts.
>> Strace revealed the following:
>>
>> open("./", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
>> fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
>> open("./fonts.scale", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4
>> getdents(3, /* 80 entries */, 32768) = 2304
>> open("./.", O_RDONLY) = 5
>> fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
>> fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
>> mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0xb7fcf000
>> close(5) = 0
>> --- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
>> +++ killed by SIGBUS +++
>>
>> The mmap2() on a directory was successful, resulting in a SIGBUS
>> signal later. This patch removes mmap() from the list of possible
>> ecryptfs_dir_fops so that mmap() isn't possible on eCryptfs directory
>> files.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/400443
>>
>> Reported-by: Adrian C.<anrxc at sysphere.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks<tyhicks at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>> ---
>> fs/ecryptfs/file.c | 1 -
>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
>> index 4e25328..d8adc51 100644
>> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
>> @@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ const struct file_operations ecryptfs_dir_fops = {
>> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>> .compat_ioctl = ecryptfs_compat_ioctl,
>> #endif
>> - .mmap = generic_file_mmap,
>> .open = ecryptfs_open,
>> .flush = ecryptfs_flush,
>> .release = ecryptfs_release,
>
> I'll add 'backported from 38e3eaeedcac75360af8a92e7b66956ec4f334e5' and
> send it to stable.

Thanks, I overlooked that, doh.
>
> rtg





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