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Currently it's possible to encrypt all files and directories on an ext4 filesystem by deleting everything, including lost+found, then setting an encryption policy on the root directory. However, this is incompatible with e2fsck because e2fsck expects to find, create, and/or write to lost+found and does not have access to any encryption keys. Especially problematic is that if e2fsck can't find lost+found, it will create it without regard for whether the root directory is encrypted. This is wrong for obvious reasons, and it causes a later run of e2fsck to consider the lost+found directory entry to be corrupted. Encrypting the root directory may also be of limited use because it is the "all-or-nothing" use case, for which dm-crypt can be used instead. (By design, encryption policies are inherited and cannot be overridden; so the root directory having an encryption policy implies that all files and directories on the filesystem have that same encryption policy.) In any case, encrypting the root directory is broken currently and must not be allowed; so start returning an error if userspace requests it. For now only do this in ext4, because f2fs and ubifs do not appear to have the lost+found requirement. We could move it into fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() later if desired, though. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.