From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Alberto Garcia" <berto@igalia.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: refuse encryption when block size > page size
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:27:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260925142748.7AB451F000FF@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <093b40e9df29fc102907092f4ff73461f4cfcbfd.1790343958.git.berto@igalia.com>
> Encryption is not supported when a filesystem's block size is larger
> than the page size, and commit 709f0f1f1bf5 ("ext4: add checks for
> large folio incompatibilities when BS > PS") added a check to refuse
> mounting such a filesystem.
>
> However, it is also possible to enable the "encrypt" feature on a
> filesystem that is already mounted (with tune2fs -O encrypt). Once
> that happens it won't be possible to mount the filesystem again in
> the future, but there is nothing preventing the user from setting an
> encryption policy while the filesystem is still mounted.
>
> Fix this by refusing to set an fscrypt context in ext4_set_context()
> when the block size is larger than the page size.
>
> Fixes: 709f0f1f1bf5 ("ext4: add checks for large folio incompatibilities when BS > PS")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-25 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-25 14:19 [PATCH 0/2] ext4: refuse encryption when block size > page size Alberto Garcia
2026-09-25 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Alberto Garcia
2026-09-25 14:27 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-03 15:17 ` Baokun Li
2026-09-25 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext4: reject encrypted inodes " Alberto Garcia
2026-09-25 14:26 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 15:28 ` Baokun Li
2026-09-25 19:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] ext4: refuse encryption " Eric Biggers
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