eCryptfs: Initialize empty lower files when opening them

Historically, eCryptfs has only initialized lower files in the
ecryptfs_create() path. Lower file initialization is the act of writing
the cryptographic metadata from the inode's crypt_stat to the header of
the file. The ecryptfs_open() path already expects that metadata to be
in the header of the file.

A number of users have reported empty lower files in beneath their
eCryptfs mounts. Most of the causes for those empty files being left
around have been addressed, but the presence of empty files causes
problems due to the lack of proper cryptographic metadata.

To transparently solve this problem, this patch initializes empty lower
files in the ecryptfs_open() error path. If the metadata is unreadable
due to the lower inode size being 0, plaintext passthrough support is
not in use, and the metadata is stored in the header of the file (as
opposed to the user.ecryptfs extended attribute), the lower file will be
initialized.

The number of nested conditionals in ecryptfs_open() was getting out of
hand, so a helper function was created. To avoid the same nested
conditional problem, the conditional logic was reversed inside of the
helper function.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/911507

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
index 2b17f2f..baf8b05 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
@@ -161,6 +161,48 @@ static int ecryptfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 struct kmem_cache *ecryptfs_file_info_cache;
 
+static int read_or_initialize_metadata(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	struct ecryptfs_mount_crypt_stat *mount_crypt_stat;
+	struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat;
+	int rc;
+
+	crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_inode_to_private(inode)->crypt_stat;
+	mount_crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_superblock_to_private(
+						inode->i_sb)->mount_crypt_stat;
+	mutex_lock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
+
+	if (crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_POLICY_APPLIED &&
+	    crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_KEY_VALID) {
+		rc = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	rc = ecryptfs_read_metadata(dentry);
+	if (!rc)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_PLAINTEXT_PASSTHROUGH_ENABLED) {
+		crypt_stat->flags &= ~(ECRYPTFS_I_SIZE_INITIALIZED
+				       | ECRYPTFS_ENCRYPTED);
+		rc = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (!(mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_XATTR_METADATA_ENABLED) &&
+	    !i_size_read(ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode))) {
+		rc = ecryptfs_initialize_file(dentry, inode);
+		if (!rc)
+			goto out;
+	}
+
+	rc = -EIO;
+out:
+	mutex_unlock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
+	return rc;
+}
+
 /**
  * ecryptfs_open
  * @inode: inode speciying file to open
@@ -236,32 +278,9 @@ static int ecryptfs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		rc = 0;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	mutex_lock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
-	if (!(crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_POLICY_APPLIED)
-	    || !(crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_KEY_VALID)) {
-		rc = ecryptfs_read_metadata(ecryptfs_dentry);
-		if (rc) {
-			ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG,
-					"Valid headers not found\n");
-			if (!(mount_crypt_stat->flags
-			      & ECRYPTFS_PLAINTEXT_PASSTHROUGH_ENABLED)) {
-				rc = -EIO;
-				printk(KERN_WARNING "Either the lower file "
-				       "is not in a valid eCryptfs format, "
-				       "or the key could not be retrieved. "
-				       "Plaintext passthrough mode is not "
-				       "enabled; returning -EIO\n");
-				mutex_unlock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
-				goto out_put;
-			}
-			rc = 0;
-			crypt_stat->flags &= ~(ECRYPTFS_I_SIZE_INITIALIZED
-					       | ECRYPTFS_ENCRYPTED);
-			mutex_unlock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
-			goto out;
-		}
-	}
-	mutex_unlock(&crypt_stat->cs_mutex);
+	rc = read_or_initialize_metadata(ecryptfs_dentry);
+	if (rc)
+		goto out_put;
 	ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "inode w/ addr = [0x%p], i_ino = "
 			"[0x%.16lx] size: [0x%.16llx]\n", inode, inode->i_ino,
 			(unsigned long long)i_size_read(inode));