On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:40:38PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Add an ->s_master_keys keyring to 'struct super_block' for holding > encryption keys which have been added to the filesystem. This keyring > will be populated using a new fscrypt ioctl. > > This is needed for several reasons, including: > > - To solve the visibility problems of having filesystem encryption keys > stored in process-subscribed keyrings, while the VFS state of the > filesystem is actually global. > > - To implement a proper API for removing keys, which among other things > will require maintaining the list of inodes that are using each master > key so that we can evict the inodes when the key is removed. > > - To allow caching a crypto transform for each master key so that we > don't have to repeatedly allocate one over and over. > > See later patches for full details, including why it wouldn't be enough > to add the concept of a "global keyring" to the keyrings API instead. > > ->s_master_keys will only be allocated when someone tries to add a key > for the first time. Otherwise it will stay NULL. > > Note that this could go in the filesystem-specific superblocks instead. > However, we already have three filesystems using fs/crypto/, so it's > useful to have it in the VFS. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/super.c | 3 +++ > include/linux/fs.h | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c > index 166c4ee0d0ed..161a9d05aa9f 100644 > --- a/fs/super.c > +++ b/fs/super.c > @@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ static void destroy_super(struct super_block *s) > WARN_ON(!list_empty(&s->s_mounts)); > put_user_ns(s->s_user_ns); > kfree(s->s_subtype); > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) > + key_put(s->s_master_keys); > +#endif > call_rcu(&s->rcu, destroy_super_rcu); > } > > diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h > index 3efd5ded21c9..8cfb0877d32c 100644 > --- a/include/linux/fs.h > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h > @@ -1440,6 +1440,10 @@ struct super_block { > > spinlock_t s_inode_wblist_lock; > struct list_head s_inodes_wb; /* writeback inodes */ > + > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) > + struct key *s_master_keys; /* master crypto keys in use */ > +#endif > } __randomize_layout; > > /* Helper functions so that in most cases filesystems will > -- > 2.15.0.rc0.271.g36b669edcc-goog > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fscrypt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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