From d9cdc903318171571f1cd1e5737fd0cab94186be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:55:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4 crypto: enforce context consistency Enforce the following inheritance policy: 1) An unencrypted directory may contain encrypted or unencrypted files or directories. 2) All files or directories in a directory must be protected using the same key as their containing directory. As a result, assuming the following setup: mke2fs -t ext4 -Fq -O encrypt /dev/vdc mount -t ext4 /dev/vdc /vdc mkdir /vdc/a /vdc/b /vdc/c echo foo | e4crypt add_key /vdc/a echo bar | e4crypt add_key /vdc/b for i in a b c ; do cp /etc/motd /vdc/$i/motd-$i ; done Then we will see the following results: cd /vdc mv a b # will fail; /vdc/a and /vdc/b have different keys mv b/motd-b a # will fail, see above ln a/motd-a b # will fail, see above mv c a # will fail; all inodes in an encrypted directory # must be encrypted ln c/motd-c b # will fail, see above mv a/motd-a c # will succeed mv c/motd-a a # will succeed Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- Reading git-format-patch failed