Re: [PATCH 0/2] ceph: fscrypt: fix atomic open bug for encrypted directories

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Mar 13 2023 - 13:13:50 EST


On Mon, 2023-03-13 at 12:33 +0000, Luís Henriques wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I started seeing fstest generic/123 failing in ceph fscrypt, when running it
> with 'test_dummy_encryption'. This test is quite simple:
>
> 1. Creates a directory with write permissions for root only
> 2. Writes into a file in that directory
> 3. Uses 'su' to try to modify that file as a different user, and
> gets -EPERM
>
> All the test steps succeed, but the test fails to cleanup: 'rm -rf <dir>'
> will fail with -ENOTEMPTY. 'strace' shows that calling unlinkat() to remove
> the file got a -ENOENT and then -ENOTEMPTY for the directory.
>
> This is because 'su' does a drop_caches ('su (874): drop_caches: 2' in
> dmesg), and ceph's atomic open will do:
>
> if (IS_ENCRYPTED(dir)) {
> set_bit(CEPH_MDS_R_FSCRYPT_FILE, &req->r_req_flags);
> if (!fscrypt_has_encryption_key(dir)) {
> spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
> dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME;
> spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
> }
> }
>
> Although 'dir' has the encryption key available, fscrypt_has_encryption_key()
> will return 'false' because fscrypt info isn't yet set after the cache
> cleanup.
>
> The first patch will add a new helper for the atomic_open that will force
> the fscrypt info to be loaded into an inode that has been evicted recently
> but for which the key is still available.
>
> The second patch switches ceph atomic_open to use the new fscrypt helper.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís
>
> Changes since initial RFC (after Eric's review):
> - Added kerneldoc comments to the new fscrypt helper
> - Dropped '__' from helper name (now fscrypt_prepare_atomic_open())
> - Added IS_ENCRYPTED() check in helper
> - DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME is not set if fscrypt_get_encryption_info() returns an
> error
> - Fixed helper for !CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION (now defined 'static inline')
>
> Luís Henriques (2):
> fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_atomic_open()
> ceph: switch atomic open to use new fscrypt helper
>
> fs/ceph/file.c | 8 +++-----
> fs/crypto/hooks.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/fscrypt.h | 7 +++++++
> 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>

Looks like a nice cleanup.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>