linux-ext4 - [PATCH] quota: explicitly forbid quota files from being encrypted

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Date:   Mon,  4 Sep 2023 17:32:27 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] quota: explicitly forbid quota files from being encrypted

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Since commit d7e7b9af104c ("fscrypt: stop using keyrings subsystem for
fscrypt_master_key"), xfstest generic/270 causes a WARNING when run on
f2fs with test_dummy_encryption in the mount options:

$ kvm-xfstests -c f2fs/encrypt generic/270
[...]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2453 at fs/crypto/keyring.c:240 fscrypt_destroy_keyring+0x1f5/0x260

The cause of the WARNING is that not all encrypted inodes have been
evicted before fscrypt_destroy_keyring() is called, which violates an
assumption.  This happens because the test uses an external quota file,
which gets automatically encrypted due to test_dummy_encryption.

Encryption of quota files has never really been supported.  On ext4,
ext4_quota_read() does not decrypt the data, so encrypted quota files
are always considered invalid on ext4.  On f2fs, f2fs_quota_read() uses
the pagecache, so trying to use an encrypted quota file gets farther,
resulting in the issue described above being possible.  But this was
never intended to be possible, and there is no use case for it.

Therefore, make the quota support layer explicitly reject using
IS_ENCRYPTED inodes when quotaon is attempted.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 fs/quota/dquot.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 9e72bfe8bbad9..7e268cd2727cc 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -2339,6 +2339,20 @@ static int vfs_setup_quota_inode(struct inode *inode, int type)
 	if (sb_has_quota_loaded(sb, type))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
+	/*
+	 * Quota files should never be encrypted.  They should be thought of as
+	 * filesystem metadata, not user data.  New-style internal quota files
+	 * cannot be encrypted by users anyway, but old-style external quota
+	 * files could potentially be incorrectly created in an encrypted
+	 * directory, hence this explicit check.  Some reasons why encrypted
+	 * quota files don't work include: (1) some filesystems that support
+	 * encryption don't handle it in their quota_read and quota_write, and
+	 * (2) cleaning up encrypted quota files at unmount would need special
+	 * consideration, as quota files are cleaned up later than user files.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	dqopt->files[type] = igrab(inode);
 	if (!dqopt->files[type])
 		return -EIO;

base-commit: 708283abf896dd4853e673cc8cba70acaf9bf4ea
-- 
2.42.0