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Eric Biggers 9220bf17ae fscrypt: don't print name of busy file when removing key
commit 13a10da946 upstream.

When an encryption key can't be fully removed due to file(s) protected
by it still being in-use, we shouldn't really print the path to one of
these files to the kernel log, since parts of this path are likely to be
encrypted on-disk, and (depending on how the system is set up) the
confidentiality of this path might be lost by printing it to the log.

This is a trade-off: a single file path often doesn't matter at all,
especially if it's a directory; the kernel log might still be protected
in some way; and I had originally hoped that any "inode(s) still busy"
bugs (which are security weaknesses in their own right) would be quickly
fixed and that to do so it would be super helpful to always know the
file path and not have to run 'find dir -inum $inum' after the fact.

But in practice, these bugs can be hard to fix (e.g. due to asynchronous
process killing that is difficult to eliminate, for performance
reasons), and also not tied to specific files, so knowing a file path
doesn't necessarily help.

So to be safe, for now let's just show the inode number, not the path.
If someone really wants to know a path they can use 'find -inum'.

Fixes: b1c0ec3599 ("fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.4+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120060732.390362-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-02-11 04:35:20 -08:00
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Kconfig fscrypt: add an HKDF-SHA512 implementation 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
Makefile fscrypt: add an HKDF-SHA512 implementation 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
bio.c fscrypt: decrypt only the needed blocks in __fscrypt_decrypt_bio() 2019-05-28 10:27:53 -07:00
crypto.c fscrypt: v2 encryption policy support 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
fname.c fscrypt: v2 encryption policy support 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
fscrypt_private.h fscrypt: require that key be added when setting a v2 encryption policy 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
hkdf.c fscrypt: add an HKDF-SHA512 implementation 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
hooks.c fscrypt: make fscrypt_msg() take inode instead of super_block 2019-08-12 19:04:44 -07:00
keyring.c fscrypt: don't print name of busy file when removing key 2020-02-11 04:35:20 -08:00
keysetup.c fscrypt: allow unprivileged users to add/remove keys for v2 policies 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
keysetup_v1.c fscrypt: v2 encryption policy support 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00
policy.c fscrypt: require that key be added when setting a v2 encryption policy 2019-08-12 19:18:50 -07:00