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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>ecryptfs: use stub posix acl handlers</title>
<updated>2022-10-20T08:13:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T15:17:23+00:00</published>
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Now that ecryptfs supports the get and set acl inode operations and the
vfs has been switched to the new posi api, ecryptfs can simply rely on
the stub posix acl handlers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that ecryptfs supports the get and set acl inode operations and the
vfs has been switched to the new posi api, ecryptfs can simply rely on
the stub posix acl handlers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: implement set acl method</title>
<updated>2022-10-20T08:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T15:17:18+00:00</published>
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need
all filesystem to implement get and set acl.

So far ecryptfs didn't implement get and set acl inode operations
because it wanted easy access to the dentry. Now that we extended the
set acl inode operation to take a dentry argument and added a new get
acl inode operation that takes a dentry argument we can let ecryptfs
implement get and set acl inode operations.

Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this
patch is a non-functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need
all filesystem to implement get and set acl.

So far ecryptfs didn't implement get and set acl inode operations
because it wanted easy access to the dentry. Now that we extended the
set acl inode operation to take a dentry argument and added a new get
acl inode operation that takes a dentry argument we can let ecryptfs
implement get and set acl inode operations.

Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this
patch is a non-functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: implement get acl method</title>
<updated>2022-10-20T08:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T15:17:17+00:00</published>
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need
all filesystem to implement get and set acl.

So far ecryptfs didn't implement get and set acl inode operations
because it wanted easy access to the dentry. Now that we extended the
set acl inode operation to take a dentry argument and added a new get
acl inode operation that takes a dentry argument we can let ecryptfs
implement get and set acl inode operations.

Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this
patch is a non-functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need
all filesystem to implement get and set acl.

So far ecryptfs didn't implement get and set acl inode operations
because it wanted easy access to the dentry. Now that we extended the
set acl inode operation to take a dentry argument and added a new get
acl inode operation that takes a dentry argument we can let ecryptfs
implement get and set acl inode operations.

Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this
patch is a non-functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: constify path</title>
<updated>2022-09-01T21:40:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-04T17:24:00+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ecryptfs-5.13-rc1-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs</title>
<updated>2021-05-06T17:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-06T17:06:39+00:00</published>
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Pull ecryptfs updates from Tyler Hicks:
 "Code cleanups and a bug fix

   - W=1 compiler warning cleanups

   - Mutex initialization simplification

   - Protect against NULL pointer exception during mount"

* tag 'ecryptfs-5.13-rc1-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
  ecryptfs: fix kernel panic with null dev_name
  ecryptfs: remove unused helpers
  ecryptfs: Fix typo in message
  eCryptfs: Use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
  ecryptfs: keystore: Fix some kernel-doc issues and demote non-conformant headers
  ecryptfs: inode: Help out nearly-there header and demote non-conformant ones
  ecryptfs: mmap: Help out one function header and demote other abuses
  ecryptfs: crypto: Supply some missing param descriptions and demote abuses
  ecryptfs: miscdev: File headers are not good kernel-doc candidates
  ecryptfs: main: Demote a bunch of non-conformant kernel-doc headers
  ecryptfs: messaging: Add missing param descriptions and demote abuses
  ecryptfs: super: Fix formatting, naming and kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: file: Demote kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: kthread: Demote file header and provide description for 'cred'
  ecryptfs: dentry: File headers are not good candidates for kernel-doc
  ecryptfs: debug: Demote a couple of kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: read_write: File headers do not make good candidates for kernel-doc
  ecryptfs: use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
  eCryptfs: add a semicolon
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Pull ecryptfs updates from Tyler Hicks:
 "Code cleanups and a bug fix

   - W=1 compiler warning cleanups

   - Mutex initialization simplification

   - Protect against NULL pointer exception during mount"

* tag 'ecryptfs-5.13-rc1-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
  ecryptfs: fix kernel panic with null dev_name
  ecryptfs: remove unused helpers
  ecryptfs: Fix typo in message
  eCryptfs: Use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
  ecryptfs: keystore: Fix some kernel-doc issues and demote non-conformant headers
  ecryptfs: inode: Help out nearly-there header and demote non-conformant ones
  ecryptfs: mmap: Help out one function header and demote other abuses
  ecryptfs: crypto: Supply some missing param descriptions and demote abuses
  ecryptfs: miscdev: File headers are not good kernel-doc candidates
  ecryptfs: main: Demote a bunch of non-conformant kernel-doc headers
  ecryptfs: messaging: Add missing param descriptions and demote abuses
  ecryptfs: super: Fix formatting, naming and kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: file: Demote kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: kthread: Demote file header and provide description for 'cred'
  ecryptfs: dentry: File headers are not good candidates for kernel-doc
  ecryptfs: debug: Demote a couple of kernel-doc abuses
  ecryptfs: read_write: File headers do not make good candidates for kernel-doc
  ecryptfs: use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
  eCryptfs: add a semicolon
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.ecryptfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2021-05-02T16:05:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-02T16:05:54+00:00</published>
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Pull exryptfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The interesting part here is (ecryptfs) lock_parent() fixes - its
  treatment of -&gt;d_parent had been very wrong.

  The rest is trivial cleanups"

* 'work.ecryptfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ecryptfs: ecryptfs_dentry_info-&gt;crypt_stat is never used
  ecryptfs: get rid of unused accessors
  ecryptfs: saner API for lock_parent()
  ecryptfs: get rid of pointless dget/dput in -&gt;symlink() and -&gt;link()
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Pull exryptfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The interesting part here is (ecryptfs) lock_parent() fixes - its
  treatment of -&gt;d_parent had been very wrong.

  The rest is trivial cleanups"

* 'work.ecryptfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ecryptfs: ecryptfs_dentry_info-&gt;crypt_stat is never used
  ecryptfs: get rid of unused accessors
  ecryptfs: saner API for lock_parent()
  ecryptfs: get rid of pointless dget/dput in -&gt;symlink() and -&gt;link()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: inode: Help out nearly-there header and demote non-conformant ones</title>
<updated>2021-04-19T04:42:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lee Jones</name>
<email>lee.jones@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-30T16:44:57+00:00</published>
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Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):

 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'dentry' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dentry' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dir' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: expecting prototype for eCryptfs(). Prototype was for lock_parent() instead
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:211: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_initialize_file'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:211: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_inode' not described in 'ecryptfs_initialize_file'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'mnt_userns' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'directory_inode' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'excl' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Excess function parameter 'dir' description in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Excess function parameter 'dentry' description in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:320: warning: Function parameter or member 'dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_lookup_interpose'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:320: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_lookup_interpose'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:887: warning: Function parameter or member 'mnt_userns' not described in 'ecryptfs_setattr'

Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael A. Halcrow" &lt;mahalcro@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael C. Thompsion" &lt;mcthomps@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
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Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):

 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'dentry' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dentry' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dir' not described in 'lock_parent'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:27: warning: expecting prototype for eCryptfs(). Prototype was for lock_parent() instead
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:211: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_initialize_file'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:211: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_inode' not described in 'ecryptfs_initialize_file'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'mnt_userns' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'directory_inode' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'ecryptfs_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Function parameter or member 'excl' not described in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Excess function parameter 'dir' description in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:258: warning: Excess function parameter 'dentry' description in 'ecryptfs_create'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:320: warning: Function parameter or member 'dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_lookup_interpose'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:320: warning: Function parameter or member 'lower_dentry' not described in 'ecryptfs_lookup_interpose'
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:887: warning: Function parameter or member 'mnt_userns' not described in 'ecryptfs_setattr'

Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael A. Halcrow" &lt;mahalcro@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael C. Thompsion" &lt;mcthomps@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: stack fileattr ops</title>
<updated>2021-04-12T13:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-07T12:36:42+00:00</published>
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Add stacking for the fileattr operations.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
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Add stacking for the fileattr operations.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: saner API for lock_parent()</title>
<updated>2021-03-20T21:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-29T22:35:43+00:00</published>
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Switch all users of lock_parent() to the approach used by -&gt;unlink()
and -&gt;rmdir() - instead of playing with dget_parent() of underlying
dentry of child,
	* start with ecryptfs dentry of child.
	* find underlying dentries for that dentry and its parent
(which is stable, since the parent directory in upper layer is
held at least shared).  No need to pin them, they are already pinned
by ecryptfs dentries.
	* lock the inode of undelying directory of parent
	* check if it's the parent of underlying dentry of child.
-&gt;d_parent of underlying dentry of child might be unstable.  However,
result of its comparison with underlying dentry of parent *is* stable now.

Turn that into replacement of lock_parent(), convert the existing callers
of lock_parent() to that, along with ecryptfs_unlink() and ecryptfs_rmdir().

Callers need only the underlying dentry of child and inode of underlying
dentry of parent, so lock_parent() passes those to the caller now.
Note that underlying directory is locked in any case, success or failure.

That approach does not need a primitive for unlocking - we hadn't grabbed
any dentry references, so all we need is to unlock the underlying directory
inode.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Switch all users of lock_parent() to the approach used by -&gt;unlink()
and -&gt;rmdir() - instead of playing with dget_parent() of underlying
dentry of child,
	* start with ecryptfs dentry of child.
	* find underlying dentries for that dentry and its parent
(which is stable, since the parent directory in upper layer is
held at least shared).  No need to pin them, they are already pinned
by ecryptfs dentries.
	* lock the inode of undelying directory of parent
	* check if it's the parent of underlying dentry of child.
-&gt;d_parent of underlying dentry of child might be unstable.  However,
result of its comparison with underlying dentry of parent *is* stable now.

Turn that into replacement of lock_parent(), convert the existing callers
of lock_parent() to that, along with ecryptfs_unlink() and ecryptfs_rmdir().

Callers need only the underlying dentry of child and inode of underlying
dentry of parent, so lock_parent() passes those to the caller now.
Note that underlying directory is locked in any case, success or failure.

That approach does not need a primitive for unlocking - we hadn't grabbed
any dentry references, so all we need is to unlock the underlying directory
inode.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ecryptfs: get rid of pointless dget/dput in -&gt;symlink() and -&gt;link()</title>
<updated>2021-03-08T15:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-29T22:32:40+00:00</published>
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calls in -&gt;unlink(), -&gt;rmdir() and -&gt;rename() make sense - we want
to prevent the underlying dentries going negative there.  In
-&gt;symlink() and -&gt;link() they are absolutely pointless.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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calls in -&gt;unlink(), -&gt;rmdir() and -&gt;rename() make sense - we want
to prevent the underlying dentries going negative there.  In
-&gt;symlink() and -&gt;link() they are absolutely pointless.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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