On Thu, Sep 24 2020 at 3:17am -0400, Satya Tangirala <satyat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:14:39PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21 2020 at 8:32pm -0400, > > Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:44:21PM +0000, Satya Tangirala wrote: > > > > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Update the device-mapper core to support exposing the inline crypto > > > > support of the underlying device(s) through the device-mapper device. > > > > > > > > This works by creating a "passthrough keyslot manager" for the dm > > > > device, which declares support for encryption settings which all > > > > underlying devices support. When a supported setting is used, the bio > > > > cloning code handles cloning the crypto context to the bios for all the > > > > underlying devices. When an unsupported setting is used, the blk-crypto > > > > fallback is used as usual. > > > > > > > > Crypto support on each underlying device is ignored unless the > > > > corresponding dm target opts into exposing it. This is needed because > > > > for inline crypto to semantically operate on the original bio, the data > > > > must not be transformed by the dm target. Thus, targets like dm-linear > > > > can expose crypto support of the underlying device, but targets like > > > > dm-crypt can't. (dm-crypt could use inline crypto itself, though.) > > > > > > > > When a key is evicted from the dm device, it is evicted from all > > > > underlying devices. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Co-developed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Looks good as far as Satya's changes from my original patch are concerned. > > > > > > Can the device-mapper maintainers take a look at this? > > > > In general it looks like these changes were implemented very carefully > > and are reasonable if we _really_ want to enable passing through inline > > crypto. > > > > I do have concerns about the inability to handle changes at runtime (due > > to a table reload that introduces new devices without the encryption > > settings the existing devices in the table are using). But the fallback > > mechanism saves it from being a complete non-starter. > > Unfortunately, the fallback doesn't completely handle that situation > right now. The DM device could be suspended while an upper layer like > fscrypt is doing something like "checking if encryption algorithm 'A' > is supported by the DM device". It's possible that fscrypt thinks > the DM device supports 'A' even though the DM device is suspended, and > the table is about to be reloaded to introduce a new device that doesn't > support 'A'. Before the DM device is resumed with the new table, fscrypt > might send a bio that uses encryption algorithm 'A' without initializing > the blk-crypto-fallback ciphers for 'A', because it believes that the DM > device supports 'A'. When the bio gets processed by the DM (or when > blk-crypto does its checks to decide whether to use the fallback on that > bio), the bio will fail because the fallback ciphers aren't initialized. > > Off the top of my head, one thing we could do is to always allocate the > fallback ciphers when the device mapper is the target device for the bio > (by maybe adding a "encryption_capabilities_may_change_at_runtime" flag > to struct blk_keyslot_manager that the DM will set to true, and that > the block layer will check for and decide to appropriately allocate > the fallback ciphers), although this does waste memory on systems > where we know the DM device tables will never change.... Yeah, I agree that'd be too wasteful. > This patch also doesn't handle the case when the encryption capabilities > of the new table are a superset of the old capabilities. Currently, a > DM device's capabilities can only shrink after the device is initially > created. They can never "expand" to make use of capabilities that might > be added due to introduction of new devices via table reloads. I might > be forgetting something I thought of before, but looking at it again > now, I don't immediately see anything wrong with expanding the > advertised capabilities on table reload....I'll look carefully into that > again. OK, that'd be good (expanding capabilities on reload). And conversely, you _could_ also fail a reload if the new device(s) don't have capabilities that are in use by the active table. > > Can you help me better understand the expected consumer of this code? > > If you have something _real_ please be explicit. It makes justifying > > supporting niche code like this more tolerable. > > So the motivation for this code was that Android currently uses a device > mapper target on top of a phone's disk for user data. On many phones, > that disk has inline encryption support, and it'd be great to be able to > make use of that. The DM device configuration isn't changed at runtime. OK, which device mapper target is used? Thanks, Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
