Hello,
This patchset makes major improvements to how keys are added, removed,
and derived in fscrypt, aka ext4/f2fs/ubifs encryption. It does this by
adding new ioctls that add and remove encryption keys directly to/from
the filesystem, and by adding a new encryption policy version ("v2")
where the user-provided keys are only used as input to HKDF-SHA512 and
are identified by their cryptographic hash.
All new APIs and all cryptosystem changes are documented in
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst. Userspace can use the new key
management ioctls with existing encrypted directories, but migrating to
v2 encryption policies is needed for the full benefits.
These changes solve four interrelated problems:
(1) Providing fscrypt keys via process-subscribed keyrings is abusing
encryption as an OS-level access control mechanism, causing many
bugs where processes don't get access to the keys they need -- e.g.,
when a 'sudo' command or a system service needs to access encrypted
files. It's also inconsistent with the filesystem/VFS "view" of
encrypted files which is global, so sometimes things randomly happen
to work anyway due to caching. Regardless, currently almost all
fscrypt users actually do need global keys, so they're having to use
workarounds that heavily abuse the session or user keyrings, e.g.
Android and Chromium OS both use a systemwide "session keyring" and
the 'fscrypt' tool links all user keyrings into root's user keyring.
(2) Currently there's no way to securely and efficiently remove a
fscrypt key such that not only is the original key wiped, but also
all files and directories protected by that key are "locked" and
their per-file keys wiped. Many users want this and are using
'echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' as a workaround, but this is
root-only, and also is overkill so can be a performance disaster.
(3) The key derivation function (KDF) that fscrypt uses to derive
per-file keys is nonstandard, inflexible, and has some weaknesses
such as being reversible and not evenly distributing the entropy
from the user-provided keys.
(4) fscrypt doesn't check that the correct key was supplied. This can
be a security vulnerability, since it allows malicious local users
to associate the wrong key with files to which they have read-only
access, causing other users' processes to read/write the wrong data.
Ultimately, the solutions to these problems all tie into each other. By
adding a filesystem-level encryption keyring with ioctls to add/remove
keys to/from it, the keys are made usable filesystem-wide (solves
problem #1). It also becomes easy to track the inodes that were
"unlocked" with each key, so they can be evicted when the key is removed
(solves problem #2). Moreover, the filesystem-level keyring is a
natural place to store an HMAC transform keyed by each key, thus making
it easy and efficient to switch the KDF to HKDF (solves problem #3).
Finally, to check that the correct key was supplied, I use HKDF to
derive a cryptographically secure key_identifier for each key (solves
problem #4). This in combination with key quotas and other careful
precautions also makes it safe to allow non-root users to add and remove
keys to/from the filesystem-level keyring. Thus, all problems are
solved without having to restrict the fscrypt API to root only.
The patchset is organized as follows:
- Patches 1-12 add new ioctls FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY,
FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY, and FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_KEY_STATUS.
Adding a key logically "unlocks" all files on the filesystem that are
protected by that key; removing a key "locks" them again.
- Patches 13-16 add support for v2 encryption policies.
- Patches 17-19 wire up the new ioctls to ext4, f2fs, and ubifs.
- Patch 20 updates the fscrypt documentation for all the changes.
v1 of this patchset was sent in October 2017 with title "fscrypt:
filesystem-level keyring and v2 policy support". This revived version
follows the same basic design but incorporates numerous improvements,
such as splitting keyinfo.c into multiple files for much better
understandability, and introducing "per-mode" encryption keys to
implement the semantics of the DIRECT_KEY encryption policy flag.
This applies to the fscrypt.git tree. You can also get it from git at:
Repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git
Branch: fscrypt-key-mgmt-improvements-v2
I've started writing xfstests for the new APIs. So far they cover basic
functionality. They can be found at:
Repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/xfstests-dev.git
Branch: fscrypt-key-mgmt-improvements
The xfstests depend on new xfs_io commands which can be found at:
Repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/xfsprogs-dev.git
Branch: fscrypt-key-mgmt-improvements
I've also made proof-of-concept changes to the 'fscrypt' userspace
program (https://github.com/google/fscrypt) to make it support v2
encryption policies. You can find these changes in git at:
Repository: https://github.com/ebiggers/fscrypt.git
Branch: fscrypt-key-mgmt-improvements
To make the 'fscrypt' userspace program experimentally use v2 encryption
policies on new encrypted directories, add the following to
/etc/fscrypt.conf within the "options" section:
"policy_version": "2"
It's also planned for Android and Chromium OS to switch to the new
ioctls and eventually to v2 encryption policies. Work-in-progress,
proof-of-concept changes by Satya Tangirala for AOSP can be found at
https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:fscrypt-key-mgmt-improvements
Eric Biggers (20):
fs, fscrypt: move uapi definitions to new header <linux/fscrypt.h>
fscrypt: use FSCRYPT_ prefix for uapi constants
fscrypt: use FSCRYPT_* definitions, not FS_*
fs: add ->s_master_keys to struct super_block
fscrypt: add ->ci_inode to fscrypt_info
fscrypt: refactor v1 policy key setup into keysetup_legacy.c
fscrypt: add FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl
fs/inode.c: export inode_lru_list_del()
fs/inode.c: rename and export dispose_list()
fs/dcache.c: add shrink_dcache_inode()
fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl
fscrypt: add FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_KEY_STATUS ioctl
fscrypt: add an HKDF-SHA512 implementation
fscrypt: v2 encryption policy support
fscrypt: allow unprivileged users to add/remove keys for v2 policies
fscrypt: require that key be added when setting a v2 encryption policy
ext4: wire up new fscrypt ioctls
f2fs: wire up new fscrypt ioctls
ubifs: wire up new fscrypt ioctls
fscrypt: document the new ioctls and policy version
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 668 ++++++++++++++----
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
fs/crypto/Kconfig | 2 +
fs/crypto/Makefile | 10 +-
fs/crypto/crypto.c | 14 +-
fs/crypto/fname.c | 5 +-
fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h | 357 ++++++++--
fs/crypto/hkdf.c | 188 +++++
fs/crypto/keyinfo.c | 592 ----------------
fs/crypto/keyring.c | 950 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 504 ++++++++++++++
fs/crypto/keysetup_legacy.c | 342 ++++++++++
fs/crypto/policy.c | 388 ++++++++---
fs/dcache.c | 32 +
fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 24 +
fs/f2fs/file.c | 46 ++
fs/inode.c | 22 +-
fs/super.c | 3 +
fs/ubifs/ioctl.c | 24 +-
include/linux/dcache.h | 1 +
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +
include/linux/fscrypt.h | 37 +-
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 54 +-
include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h | 163 +++++
24 files changed, 3490 insertions(+), 940 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/crypto/hkdf.c
delete mode 100644 fs/crypto/keyinfo.c
create mode 100644 fs/crypto/keyring.c
create mode 100644 fs/crypto/keysetup.c
create mode 100644 fs/crypto/keysetup_legacy.c
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h
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