eCryptfs: Allow 2 scatterlist entries for encrypted filenames
authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 17 May 2011 05:50:33 +0000 (00:50 -0500)
committerTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 27 May 2011 16:46:14 +0000 (11:46 -0500)
commit8d08dab786ad5cc2aca2bf870de370144b78c85a
treedda63612924a6eb53500952e00a2bc4f05f2d150
parent07850552b92b3637fa56767b5e460b4238014447
eCryptfs: Allow 2 scatterlist entries for encrypted filenames

The buffers allocated while encrypting and decrypting long filenames can
sometimes straddle two pages. In this situation, virt_to_scatterlist()
will return -ENOMEM, causing the operation to fail and the user will get
scary error messages in their logs:

kernel: ecryptfs_write_tag_70_packet: Internal error whilst attempting
to convert filename memory to scatterlist; expected rc = 1; got rc =
[-12]. block_aligned_filename_size = [272]
kernel: ecryptfs_encrypt_filename: Error attempting to generate tag 70
packet; rc = [-12]
kernel: ecryptfs_encrypt_and_encode_filename: Error attempting to
encrypt filename; rc = [-12]
kernel: ecryptfs_lookup: Error attempting to encrypt and encode
filename; rc = [-12]

The solution is to allow up to 2 scatterlist entries to be used.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c