From df068464169a84a6a66c05d140f43a46d5eb6176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryusuke Konishi Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:01:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files When ecryptfs_lookup() is called against special files, eCryptfs generates the following errors because it tries to treat them like regular eCryptfs files. Error opening lower file for lower_dentry [0xffff810233a6f150], lower_mnt [0xffff810235bb4c80], and flags [0x8000] Error opening lower_file to read header region Error attempting to read the [user.ecryptfs] xattr from the lower file; return value = [-95] Valid metadata not found in header region or xattr region; treating file as unencrypted For instance, the problem can be reproduced by the steps below. # mkdir /root/crypt /mnt/crypt # mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt # mknod /mnt/crypt/c0 c 0 0 # umount /mnt/crypt # mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt # ls -l /mnt/crypt This patch fixes it by adding a check similar to directories and symlinks. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Acked-by: Michael Halcrow Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index 131954b3fb98..5d40ad13ab5c 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n"); goto out; } + if (special_file(lower_inode->i_mode)) { + ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n"); + goto out; + } if (!nd) { ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "We have a NULL nd, just leave" "as we *think* we are about to unlink\n"); -- 2.20.1