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<subtitle>Go tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption
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<title>filesystem: improve errors</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T22:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2020-05-09T21:52:07+00:00</published>
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Introduce filesystem.ErrEncryptionNotEnabled and
filesystem.ErrEncryptionNotSupported which include the Mount as context,
and translate the corresponding metadata/ errors into them.  Then make
these errors show much better suggestions.

Also replace lots of other filesystem/ errors with either custom types
or with unnamed one-off errors that include more context.  Fix backwards
wrapping in lots of cases.

Finally, don't include the mountpoint in places where it's not useful,
like OS-level errors that already include the path.
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Introduce filesystem.ErrEncryptionNotEnabled and
filesystem.ErrEncryptionNotSupported which include the Mount as context,
and translate the corresponding metadata/ errors into them.  Then make
these errors show much better suggestions.

Also replace lots of other filesystem/ errors with either custom types
or with unnamed one-off errors that include more context.  Fix backwards
wrapping in lots of cases.

Finally, don't include the mountpoint in places where it's not useful,
like OS-level errors that already include the path.
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<title>actions/policy: improve errors</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T22:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2020-05-09T21:52:07+00:00</published>
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ErrMissingPolicyMetadata:
	Include the mount, directory path, and metadata path.  Also move
	the explanation into actions/ since it doesn't refer to any CLI
	command.

ErrPolicyMetadataMismatch:
	Include a lot more information.  Also start checking for
	consistency of the policy key descriptors, not just the
	encryption options.  Add a test for this.

ErrDifferentFilesystem:
	Include the mountpoints.

ErrOnlyProtector:
	Clarify the message and include the protector descriptor.

ErrAlreadyProtected:
ErrNotProtected:
	Include the policy and protector descriptors.

ErrAccessDeniedPossiblyV2:
	Make it slightly clearer what failed.  Also move the explanation
	into actions/ since it doesn't refer to any CLI command.
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ErrMissingPolicyMetadata:
	Include the mount, directory path, and metadata path.  Also move
	the explanation into actions/ since it doesn't refer to any CLI
	command.

ErrPolicyMetadataMismatch:
	Include a lot more information.  Also start checking for
	consistency of the policy key descriptors, not just the
	encryption options.  Add a test for this.

ErrDifferentFilesystem:
	Include the mountpoints.

ErrOnlyProtector:
	Clarify the message and include the protector descriptor.

ErrAlreadyProtected:
ErrNotProtected:
	Include the policy and protector descriptors.

ErrAccessDeniedPossiblyV2:
	Make it slightly clearer what failed.  Also move the explanation
	into actions/ since it doesn't refer to any CLI command.
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<entry>
<title>cmd/fscrypt: add FSCRYPT_CONSISTENT_OUTPUT environmental variable</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T21:04:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T21:04:47+00:00</published>
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Allow setting FSCRYPT_CONSISTENT_OUTPUT=1 in the environment to cause
policies and protectors to sorted by last modification time.  The CLI
tests need this to make the output of 'fscrypt' ordered in a consistent
way with regard to the operations performed.
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Allow setting FSCRYPT_CONSISTENT_OUTPUT=1 in the environment to cause
policies and protectors to sorted by last modification time.  The CLI
tests need this to make the output of 'fscrypt' ordered in a consistent
way with regard to the operations performed.
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<entry>
<title>Allow fscrypt to work in containers (#213)</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T03:43:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-17T03:43:48+00:00</published>
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Update the /proc/self/mountinfo parsing code to allow selecting a Mount
with Subtree != "/", i.e. a Mount not of the full filesystem.  This is
needed to allow fscrypt to work in containers, where the root of the
filesystem may not be mounted.

See findMainMount() for details about the algorithm used.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/211</content>
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Update the /proc/self/mountinfo parsing code to allow selecting a Mount
with Subtree != "/", i.e. a Mount not of the full filesystem.  This is
needed to allow fscrypt to work in containers, where the root of the
filesystem may not be mounted.

See findMainMount() for details about the algorithm used.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/211</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Improve error message when unlocking v2 policy is unsupported</title>
<updated>2020-03-23T20:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-18T04:10:58+00:00</published>
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If trying to unlock a v2-encrypted directory fails because the kernel
lacks support for v2 policies, show a better error message.  This can
happen if someone downgrades their kernel or tries to access encrypted
directories on removable storage from a computer with an older kernel.

Detecting this case is difficult since all we have to go with is EACCES
when opening the directory.  Implement a heuristic where if get EACCES,
we actually have read access to the directory, and the kernel doesn't
support v2 policies, we show the improved error message.

Before:

  # fscrypt unlock dir
  [ERROR] fscrypt unlock: open dir: permission denied

After:

  # fscrypt unlock dir
  [ERROR] fscrypt unlock: open dir: permission denied

  This may be caused by the directory using a v2 encryption policy and
  the current kernel not supporting it. If indeed the case, then this
  directory can only be used on kernel v5.4 and later. You can create
  directories accessible on older kernels by changing policy_version to
  1 in /etc/fscrypt.conf.
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If trying to unlock a v2-encrypted directory fails because the kernel
lacks support for v2 policies, show a better error message.  This can
happen if someone downgrades their kernel or tries to access encrypted
directories on removable storage from a computer with an older kernel.

Detecting this case is difficult since all we have to go with is EACCES
when opening the directory.  Implement a heuristic where if get EACCES,
we actually have read access to the directory, and the kernel doesn't
support v2 policies, we show the improved error message.

Before:

  # fscrypt unlock dir
  [ERROR] fscrypt unlock: open dir: permission denied

After:

  # fscrypt unlock dir
  [ERROR] fscrypt unlock: open dir: permission denied

  This may be caused by the directory using a v2 encryption policy and
  the current kernel not supporting it. If indeed the case, then this
  directory can only be used on kernel v5.4 and later. You can create
  directories accessible on older kernels by changing policy_version to
  1 in /etc/fscrypt.conf.
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<entry>
<title>filesystem: don't overwrite existing protector links</title>
<updated>2020-01-28T18:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-28T04:16:35+00:00</published>
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When adding a protector to a policy, don't unconditionally overwrite the
protector link, because it may already exist.  Instead, if it already
exists and points to the mount, just use it.  If it already exists and
points to the wrong place, return an error.

Also add a bool to the return value of AddLinkedProtector() so that
callers can check whether the link was newly created or not.
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When adding a protector to a policy, don't unconditionally overwrite the
protector link, because it may already exist.  Instead, if it already
exists and points to the mount, just use it.  If it already exists and
points to the wrong place, return an error.

Also add a bool to the return value of AddLinkedProtector() so that
callers can check whether the link was newly created or not.
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<entry>
<title>filesystem: remove canonicalizePath() (#185)</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T21:41:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>ebiggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T21:41:42+00:00</published>
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canonicalizePath() is now only used by an error path in
getMountFromLink(), which we can make use getDeviceName() instead.</content>
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canonicalizePath() is now only used by an error path in
getMountFromLink(), which we can make use getDeviceName() instead.</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Allow filesystem links to contain leading/trailing whitespace</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T19:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T19:07:38+00:00</published>
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To make manually editing linked protectors slightly more user-friendly,
automatically strip any leading or trailing whitespace.  E.g. treat
"UUID=3a6d9a76-47f0-4f13-81bf-3332fbe984fb\n" the same as
"UUID=3a6d9a76-47f0-4f13-81bf-3332fbe984fb".

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/115
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To make manually editing linked protectors slightly more user-friendly,
automatically strip any leading or trailing whitespace.  E.g. treat
"UUID=3a6d9a76-47f0-4f13-81bf-3332fbe984fb\n" the same as
"UUID=3a6d9a76-47f0-4f13-81bf-3332fbe984fb".

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/115
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<entry>
<title>filesystem: add unit tests for loadMountInfo()</title>
<updated>2019-10-30T16:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-29T07:33:54+00:00</published>
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Add a version of loadMountInfo() that takes an io.Reader parameter to
allow injecting a custom mountinfo file, then add some unit tests.
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Add a version of loadMountInfo() that takes an io.Reader parameter to
allow injecting a custom mountinfo file, then add some unit tests.
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<title>filesystem: handle bind mounts properly</title>
<updated>2019-10-30T16:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-29T07:33:54+00:00</published>
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Currently, fscrypt treats bind mounts as separate filesystems.  This is
broken because fscrypt will look for a directory's encryption policy in
different places depending on which mount it's accessed through.  This
forces users to create an fscrypt metadata directory at every bind
mount, and to copy fscrypt metadata around between mounts.

Fix this by storing fscrypt metadata only at the root of the filesystem.

To accomplish this:

- Make mountsByDevice store only a single Mount per filesystem, rather
  than multiple.  For this Mount, choose a mount of the full filesystem
  if available, preferably a read-write mount.  If the filesystem has
  only bind mounts, store a nil entry in mountsByDevice so we can show a
  proper error message later.

- Change FindMount() and GetMount() to look up the Mount by device
  number rather than by path, so that they don't return different Mounts
  depending on which path is used.

- Change AllFilesystems() to not return bind mounts.

- Due to the above changes, the mountsByPath map is no longer needed
  outside of loadMountInfo().  So make it a local variable there.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/59
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Currently, fscrypt treats bind mounts as separate filesystems.  This is
broken because fscrypt will look for a directory's encryption policy in
different places depending on which mount it's accessed through.  This
forces users to create an fscrypt metadata directory at every bind
mount, and to copy fscrypt metadata around between mounts.

Fix this by storing fscrypt metadata only at the root of the filesystem.

To accomplish this:

- Make mountsByDevice store only a single Mount per filesystem, rather
  than multiple.  For this Mount, choose a mount of the full filesystem
  if available, preferably a read-write mount.  If the filesystem has
  only bind mounts, store a nil entry in mountsByDevice so we can show a
  proper error message later.

- Change FindMount() and GetMount() to look up the Mount by device
  number rather than by path, so that they don't return different Mounts
  depending on which path is used.

- Change AllFilesystems() to not return bind mounts.

- Due to the above changes, the mountsByPath map is no longer needed
  outside of loadMountInfo().  So make it a local variable there.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/59
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