2021-06-03 02:03:44

by Theodore Ts'o

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix no-key deletion for encrypt+casefold

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 12:41:32AM +0000, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> commit 471fbbea7ff7 ("ext4: handle casefolding with encryption") is
> missing a few checks for the encryption key which are needed to
> support deleting enrypted casefolded files when the key is not
> present.
>
> Note from ebiggers:
> (These checks for the encryption key are still racy since they happen
> too late, but apparently they worked well enough...)
>
> This bug made it impossible to delete encrypted+casefolded directories
> without the encryption key, due to errors like:
>
> W : EXT4-fs warning (device vdc): __ext4fs_dirhash:270: inode #49202: comm Binder:378_4: Siphash requires key
>
> Repro steps in kvm-xfstests test appliance:
> mkfs.ext4 -F -E encoding=utf8 -O encrypt /dev/vdc
> mount /vdc
> mkdir /vdc/dir
> chattr +F /vdc/dir
> keyid=$(head -c 64 /dev/zero | xfs_io -c add_enckey /vdc | awk '{print $NF}')
> xfs_io -c "set_encpolicy $keyid" /vdc/dir
> for i in `seq 1 100`; do
> mkdir /vdc/dir/$i
> done
> xfs_io -c "rm_enckey $keyid" /vdc
> rm -rf /vdc/dir # fails with the bug
>
> Fixes: 471fbbea7ff7 ("ext4: handle casefolding with encryption")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

- Ted