Ack: [PATCH 1/1] eCryptfs: check for eCryptfs cipher support at mount

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Thu Oct 18 15:42:28 UTC 2012


On 10/18/2012 07:49 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Tim Sally <tsally at atomicpeace.com>
>
> The issue occurs when eCryptfs is mounted with a cipher supported by
> the crypto subsystem but not by eCryptfs. The mount succeeds and an
> error does not occur until a write. This change checks for eCryptfs
> cipher support at mount time.
>
> Resolves Launchpad issue #338914, reported by Tyler Hicks in 03/2009.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/338914
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Sally <tsally at atomicpeace.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
> (cherry picked from commit 5f5b331d5c21228a6519dcb793fc1629646c51a6)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>   fs/ecryptfs/main.c |   13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> index df217dc..923f6aa 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> @@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_parse_options(struct ecryptfs_sb_info *sbi, char *options,
>   	char *fnek_src;
>   	char *cipher_key_bytes_src;
>   	char *fn_cipher_key_bytes_src;
> +	u8 cipher_code;
>
>   	*check_ruid = 0;
>
> @@ -420,6 +421,18 @@ static int ecryptfs_parse_options(struct ecryptfs_sb_info *sbi, char *options,
>   	    && !fn_cipher_key_bytes_set)
>   		mount_crypt_stat->global_default_fn_cipher_key_bytes =
>   			mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_key_size;
> +
> +	cipher_code = ecryptfs_code_for_cipher_string(
> +		mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name,
> +		mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_key_size);
> +	if (!cipher_code) {
> +		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR,
> +				"eCryptfs doesn't support cipher: %s",
> +				mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name);
> +		rc = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
>   	mutex_lock(&key_tfm_list_mutex);
>   	if (!ecryptfs_tfm_exists(mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name,
>   				 NULL)) {
>


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