linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Return -ENOKEY from rename if encryption keys are missing

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Message-ID: <20170427193418.GC11396@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:34:18 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@...ma-star.at>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, david@...ma-star.at
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Return -ENOKEY from rename if encryption keys are
 missing

Hi David,

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:59:15AM +0200, David Oberhollenzer wrote:
> > Are you sure?  I just tried rebasing my ubifs support patches for xfstests and
> > xfstests-bld onto the latest xfstests and xfstests-bld respectively, then
> > building a new kvm-xfstests appliance and the latest kernel from Linus's tree.
> 
> I used this kernel tree: git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs.git
> 
> Plus the following patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/9/675
> 
> Using xfstests-dev: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git
> 
> Inside a Debian VM with scratch and test UBI volumes on nandsim.

Just FYI, I used block2mtd in the patch I wrote for xfstests-bld (i.e.
kvm-xfstests/gce-xfstests).  I didn't consider nandsim because I wasn't aware of
it.  If you take over the patch you probably should consider both options and
choose the better one.

> > $ kvm-xfstests -c ubifs -g encrypt
> >  [15:39:00] - output mismatch (see /results/ubifs/results-default/generic/397.out.bad)
> >     --- tests/generic/397.out	2017-04-26 14:37:27.000000000 -0700
> >     +++ /results/ubifs/results-default/generic/397.out.bad	2017-04-26 15:39:00.807418574 -0700
> >     @@ -10,4 +10,12 @@
> >      mkdir: cannot create directory 'SCRATCH_MNT/edir/0123456789abcdef': Required key not available
> >      ln: failed to create symbolic link 'SCRATCH_MNT/edir/newlink': Required key not available
> >      ln: failed to create symbolic link 'SCRATCH_MNT/edir/0123456789abcdef': Required key not available
> >     -stat: cannot stat 'SCRATCH_MNT/edir': No such file or directory
> >     +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/edir': Directory not empty
> >     +  File: 'SCRATCH_MNT/edir'
> >     +  Size: 632       	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> >     ...
> >     (Run 'diff -u tests/generic/397.out /results/ubifs/results-default/generic/397.out.bad'  to see the entire diff)
> > ...
> 
> This is fixed by the first patch in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/9/675

Okay, great!

> 
> 
> > What's happening with generic/398 is that it's trying cross-rename to exchange
> > an unencrypted file with an encrypted one.  The tests expects ENOKEY, but there
> > are actually two separate reasons why this operation is expected to fail:
> > 
> > (1) It's trying to link a file into an encrypted directory with the directory's
> >     key being available (ENOKEY)
> > (2) It's trying to place an unencrypted file into an encrypted directory, which
> >     violates the policy that all files in an encrypted directory have the same
> >     encryption policy (EPERM)
> 
> Sorry again for the mix up. This is specifically what this patch is
> trying to address.
> 
> 
> > Personally I think that maybe the generic/398 test should just be updated to
> > accept either error code, given that there are two valid reasons for the
> > operation to fail.
> 
> But if there are different error codes with clearly outlined reasons
> for returning each, wouldn't it be preferable to test that instead of
> allowing an implementation to return arbitrary error codes?
> 
> To my understanding, that is what the test is trying to do there and at
> least the ext4 rename and cross rename functions seem to care about
> properly distinguishing between those cases.

Well, the issue is that the operation is expected to fail for two separate
reasons, each of which has its own error code.  So I'm not sure it makes sense
to enforce that filesystems prioritize one reason over the other.  The test
could accept both ENOKEY and EPERM (but not any other error) by running 'sed -e
s/Required key not available/Operation not permitted/' on the command output.
Note that the reason generic/398 tests this operation is that it was
specifically a way that ext4 and f2fs actually did, in fact, allow violating the
"all files in a directory use the same encryption policy" constraint.

Alternatively I think you could simply update UBIFS to move the
fscrypt_has_permitted_context() checks in ubifs_rename() down below the calls to
fscrypt_setup_filename().  i.e. there's no need to add a new check; the existing
ones are sufficient, they just aren't in the order the test expects.

Eric