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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, david@sigma-star.at,
	jaegeuk@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Check for encryption feature before fscrypt_process_policy()
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:56:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160923215654.GB106495@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922223803.ggz2qodtqtht7oot@thunk.org>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:38:03PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> I think it's fine to fix it now in upstream.  It might cause some
> problems for Cyanogen developers if they want to try to use an
> upstream kernel and also enable the ext4 encryption feature, but the
> fix to make_ext4fs isn't all that hard.

Would it make sense to at least provide a helpful error message in the kernel
log?  For example:

		if (!ext4_has_feature_encrypt(sb)) {
			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO,
				 "warning: process `%s' tried to set "
				 "encryption policy on filesystem without "
				 "encryption enabled.  This is not supported.  "
				 "Use 'tune2fs -O encrypt' to enable the "
				 "encryption feature flag first.",
				 current->comm);
			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
		}

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-23 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22  6:50 [PATCH] ext4: Check for encryption feature before fscrypt_process_policy() Richard Weinberger
2016-09-22 19:49 ` Eric Biggers
2016-09-22 20:17   ` Richard Weinberger
2016-09-22 22:38   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-23 21:56     ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2016-09-30  5:53 ` Theodore Ts'o

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