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Eric Biggers committed 42d97eb0ade
fscrypt: fix renaming and linking special files Attempting to link a device node, named pipe, or socket file into an encrypted directory through rename(2) or link(2) always failed with EPERM. This happened because fscrypt_has_permitted_context() saw that the file was unencrypted and forbid creating the link. This behavior was unexpected because such files are never encrypted; only regular files, directories, and symlinks can be encrypted. To fix this, make fscrypt_has_permitted_context() always return true on special files. This will be covered by a test in my encryption xfstests patchset. Fixes: 9bd8212f981e ("ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>