Eric,
On 03.10.2016 20:03, Eric Biggers wrote:
>>> {
>>> - u8 xts_tweak[FS_XTS_TWEAK_SIZE];
>>> + struct {
>>> + __le64 index;
>>> + u8 padding[FS_XTS_TWEAK_SIZE - sizeof(__le64)];
>>> + } xts_tweak;
>>
>> While we are here, wouldn't it make sense to rename the variable to "iv"?
>> In aes-xts mode the IV is used as tweak. But it is still an IV and passed
>> as IV parameter to the crypto API.
>>
>> Especially when other cipher modes are used this is confusing.
>>
>
> Good idea --- I agree that "iv" is a better name, so as to not tie the code to
> XTS specifically. But I think the renaming should be a separate patch.
Sure. I can do that.
> Also, currently this code *is* only supposed to be used for XTS. There's a bug
> where a specially crafted filesystem can cause this code path to be entered with
> CTS, but I have a patch pending in the ext4 tree to fix that.
David and I are currently working on UBIFS encryption and we have to support other cipher
modes than XTS. So, keeping fscrypto as generic as possible would be nice. :-)
Thanks,
//richard
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