Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: require key for truncate(2) of encrypted file
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2017-06-23 23:53:03
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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2017-06-23 23:53:03
Also in:
linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fscrypt, linux-fsdevel
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:47:53PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
From: Eric Biggers <redacted> Currently, filesystems allow truncate(2) on an encrypted file without the encryption key. However, it's impossible to correctly handle the case where the size being truncated to is not a multiple of the filesystem block size, because that would require decrypting the final block, zeroing the part beyond i_size, then encrypting the block. As other modifications to encrypted file contents are prohibited without the key, just prohibit truncate(2) as well, making it fail with ENOKEY. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
Thanks, applied. - Ted