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<title>filesystem: remove an outdated comment</title>
<updated>2022-02-06T19:06:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Biggers</name>
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<published>2022-02-06T18:32:34+00:00</published>
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<title>filesystem: fall back to path-only links if UUID cannot be determined</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T07:22:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-19T07:43:35+00:00</published>
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This is needed to allow creating protector links to btrfs filesystems.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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This is needed to allow creating protector links to btrfs filesystems.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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<title>filesystem: make FindMount() fall back to search by path</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T07:22:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-19T07:43:35+00:00</published>
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This is needed to make FindMount() work on btrfs filesystems.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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This is needed to make FindMount() work on btrfs filesystems.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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<title>filesystem: add back canonicalizePath()</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T19:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-19T07:43:35+00:00</published>
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Restore the canonicalizePath() function from before commit
f2eb79fb5fb10275c014b55c13e28ff02d3b70a8, since it's needed again.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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Restore the canonicalizePath() function from before commit
f2eb79fb5fb10275c014b55c13e28ff02d3b70a8, since it's needed again.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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<title>filesystem: add back the mountsByPath map</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T19:12:37+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-19T07:43:35+00:00</published>
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Add back the mountsByPath map, which indexes all Mounts by mountpoint.
This is needed again.

To avoid confusion, also rename two local variables named mountsByPath.

mountsByPath won't contain nil entries, so also make AllFilesystems()
use it instead of mountsByDevice.  This shouldn't change its behavior.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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Add back the mountsByPath map, which indexes all Mounts by mountpoint.
This is needed again.

To avoid confusion, also rename two local variables named mountsByPath.

mountsByPath won't contain nil entries, so also make AllFilesystems()
use it instead of mountsByDevice.  This shouldn't change its behavior.

Update https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/339
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<title>filesystem: store mountpoint in link files as a fallback</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T04:46:16+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-12-23T04:46:16+00:00</published>
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Currently, linked protectors use filesystem link files of the form
"UUID=&lt;uuid&gt;".  These links get broken if the filesystem's UUID changes,
e.g. due to the filesystem being re-created even if the ".fscrypt"
directory is backed up and restored.

To prevent links from being broken (in most cases), start storing the
mountpoint path in the link files too, in the form
"UUID=&lt;uuid&gt;\nPATH=&lt;path&gt;\n".  When following a link, try the UUID
first, and if it doesn't work try the PATH.  While it's possible that
the path changed too, for login protectors (the usual use case of linked
protectors) this won't be an issue as the path will always be "/".

An alternative solution would be to fall back to scanning all
filesystems for the needed protector descriptor.  I decided not to do
that, since relying on a global scan doesn't seem to be a good design.
It wouldn't scale to large numbers of filesystems, it could cross
security boundaries, and it would make it possible for adding a new
filesystem to break fscrypt on existing filesystems.  And if a global
scan was an acceptable way to find protectors during normal use, then
there would be no need for link files in the first place.

Note: this change is backwards compatible (i.e., fscrypt will continue
to recognize old link files) but not forwards-compatible (i.e., previous
versions of fscrypt won't recognize new link files).

Fixes https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/311
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Currently, linked protectors use filesystem link files of the form
"UUID=&lt;uuid&gt;".  These links get broken if the filesystem's UUID changes,
e.g. due to the filesystem being re-created even if the ".fscrypt"
directory is backed up and restored.

To prevent links from being broken (in most cases), start storing the
mountpoint path in the link files too, in the form
"UUID=&lt;uuid&gt;\nPATH=&lt;path&gt;\n".  When following a link, try the UUID
first, and if it doesn't work try the PATH.  While it's possible that
the path changed too, for login protectors (the usual use case of linked
protectors) this won't be an issue as the path will always be "/".

An alternative solution would be to fall back to scanning all
filesystems for the needed protector descriptor.  I decided not to do
that, since relying on a global scan doesn't seem to be a good design.
It wouldn't scale to large numbers of filesystems, it could cross
security boundaries, and it would make it possible for adding a new
filesystem to break fscrypt on existing filesystems.  And if a global
scan was an acceptable way to find protectors during normal use, then
there would be no need for link files in the first place.

Note: this change is backwards compatible (i.e., fscrypt will continue
to recognize old link files) but not forwards-compatible (i.e., previous
versions of fscrypt won't recognize new link files).

Fixes https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/311
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<title>filesystem: avoid accessing irrelevant filesystems</title>
<updated>2021-12-20T16:24:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-12-20T04:17:20+00:00</published>
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Forbid 'fscrypt setup' on filesystems that aren't expected to support
encryption (other than the root filesystem), and skip looking for
fscrypt metadata directories on such filesystems.  This has two
benefits.  First, it avoids the printing of annoying warnings like:

	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt/policies: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt/protectors: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt/policies: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt/protectors: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt/policies: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt/protectors: permission denied

Second, it avoids long delays or side effects on some filesystems.

To do this, introduce an allowlist of filesystem types that fscrypt will
recognize.  I wanted to avoid doing this, since this list will need to
be updated in the future, but I don't see a better solution.
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Forbid 'fscrypt setup' on filesystems that aren't expected to support
encryption (other than the root filesystem), and skip looking for
fscrypt metadata directories on such filesystems.  This has two
benefits.  First, it avoids the printing of annoying warnings like:

	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt/policies: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /run/user/0/.fscrypt/protectors: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt/policies: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.fscrypt/protectors: invalid argument
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt/policies: permission denied
	pam_fscrypt[75038]: stat /sys/fs/pstore/.fscrypt/protectors: permission denied

Second, it avoids long delays or side effects on some filesystems.

To do this, introduce an allowlist of filesystem types that fscrypt will
recognize.  I wanted to avoid doing this, since this list will need to
be updated in the future, but I don't see a better solution.
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<title>Set owner of login protectors to correct user</title>
<updated>2021-12-20T03:44:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-12-20T03:19:25+00:00</published>
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When the root user creates a login protector for a non-root user, make
sure to chown() the protector file to make it owned by the user.
Without this, the protector cannot be updated by the user, which causes
it to get out of sync if the user changes their login passphrase.

Fixes https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/319
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When the root user creates a login protector for a non-root user, make
sure to chown() the protector file to make it owned by the user.
Without this, the protector cannot be updated by the user, which causes
it to get out of sync if the user changes their login passphrase.

Fixes https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/319
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<title>filesystem: skip TestHaveReadAccessTo() when running as root</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T21:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T20:28:30+00:00</published>
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Root can read all files, so this test fails when running as root.
Skip it instead.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/288
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Root can read all files, so this test fails when running as root.
Skip it instead.

Resolves https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/288
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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>
</author>
<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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