eCryptfs: Force RO mount when encrypted view is enabled

The ecryptfs_encrypted_view mount option greatly changes the
functionality of an eCryptfs mount. Instead of encrypting and decrypting
lower files, it provides a unified view of the encrypted files in the
lower filesystem. The presence of the ecryptfs_encrypted_view mount
option is intended to force a read-only mount and modifying files is not
supported when the feature is in use. See the following commit for more
information:

  e77a56d [PATCH] eCryptfs: Encrypted passthrough

This patch forces the mount to be read-only when the
ecryptfs_encrypted_view mount option is specified by setting the
MS_RDONLY flag on the superblock. Additionally, this patch removes some
broken logic in ecryptfs_open() that attempted to prevent modifications
of files when the encrypted view feature was in use. The check in
ecryptfs_open() was not sufficient to prevent file modifications using
system calls that do not operate on a file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Priya Bansal <p.bansal@samsung.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.21+: e77a56d [PATCH] eCryptfs: Encrypted passthrough

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
index f5bce9096555..54742f9a67a8 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
@@ -190,23 +190,11 @@ static int ecryptfs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 	struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat = NULL;
-	struct ecryptfs_mount_crypt_stat *mount_crypt_stat;
 	struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
 	/* Private value of ecryptfs_dentry allocated in
 	 * ecryptfs_lookup() */
 	struct ecryptfs_file_info *file_info;
 
-	mount_crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_superblock_to_private(
-		ecryptfs_dentry->d_sb)->mount_crypt_stat;
-	if ((mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_ENCRYPTED_VIEW_ENABLED)
-	    && ((file->f_flags & O_WRONLY) || (file->f_flags & O_RDWR)
-		|| (file->f_flags & O_CREAT) || (file->f_flags & O_TRUNC)
-		|| (file->f_flags & O_APPEND))) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Mount has encrypted view enabled; "
-		       "files may only be read\n");
-		rc = -EPERM;
-		goto out;
-	}
 	/* Released in ecryptfs_release or end of function if failure */
 	file_info = kmem_cache_zalloc(ecryptfs_file_info_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	ecryptfs_set_file_private(file, file_info);