[PATCH] ubifs: Don't encrypt special files on creation

David Gstir david at sigma-star.at
Wed May 17 04:36:16 PDT 2017


When a new inode is created, we check if the containing folder has a encryption
policy set and inherit that. This should however only be done for regular
files, links and subdirectories. Not for sockes fifos etc.

Fixes: d475a507457b ("ubifs: Add skeleton for fscrypto")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david at sigma-star.at>
---
 fs/ubifs/dir.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/dir.c b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
index 566079d9b402..c67f6a3a606c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ struct inode *ubifs_new_inode(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *dir,
 	case S_IFBLK:
 	case S_IFCHR:
 		inode->i_op  = &ubifs_file_inode_operations;
+		encrypted = false;
 		break;
 	default:
 		BUG();
-- 
2.12.0




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