linux-ext4 - Re: e4crypt: fix error handling for KEYCTL_GET_KEYRING

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Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:44:57 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Joe Richey <joerichey94@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>,
        Joe Richey <joerichey@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: e4crypt: fix error handling for KEYCTL_GET_KEYRING_ID

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:52:50PM +0000, Joe Richey wrote:
> From: Joe Richey <joerichey@...gle.com>
> 
> Due to some interesting behaviour in keyctl (as described in the
> comments), we use KEYCTL_GET_KEYRING_ID to translate the special value
> of KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING to a real keyring id. However, how we
> currently do this is flawed in two ways.
> 
> First, if KEYCTL_GET_KEYRING_ID fails, we don't detect it as it returns
> -1 and zero is used for an error value in get_keyring_id. Second, if the
> user specifies "-k @s" the translation never runs and the undesireable
> behavior occurs.
> 
> These are both fixed by doing the translation outside of get_keyring_id.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Richey <joerichey@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted