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Message-ID: <20200907225151.GC68127@sol.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 15:51:51 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: restrict IV_INO_LBLK_32 to ino_bits <= 32
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 01:38:41PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
>
> When an encryption policy has the IV_INO_LBLK_32 flag set, the IV
> generation method involves hashing the inode number. This is different
> from fscrypt's other IV generation methods, where the inode number is
> either not used at all or is included directly in the IVs.
>
> Therefore, in principle IV_INO_LBLK_32 can work with any length inode
> number. However, currently fscrypt gets the inode number from
> inode::i_ino, which is 'unsigned long'. So currently the implementation
> limit is actually 32 bits (like IV_INO_LBLK_64), since longer inode
> numbers will have been truncated by the VFS on 32-bit platforms.
>
> Fix fscrypt_supported_v2_policy() to enforce the correct limit.
>
> This doesn't actually matter currently, since only ext4 and f2fs support
> IV_INO_LBLK_32, and they both only support 32-bit inode numbers. But we
> might as well fix it in case it matters in the future.
>
> Ideally inode::i_ino would instead be made 64-bit, but for now it's not
> needed. (Note, this limit does *not* prevent filesystems with 64-bit
> inode numbers from adding fscrypt support, since IV_INO_LBLK_* support
> is optional and is useful only on certain hardware.)
>
> Fixes: e3b1078bedd3 ("fscrypt: add support for IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies")
> Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Applied to fscrypt.git#master for 5.10.
- Eric
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