Re: [PATCH 2/4] fscrypt: add fscrypt_add_test_dummy_key()

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On 05/12, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:32:49PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Currently, the test_dummy_encryption mount option (which is used for
> > encryption I/O testing with xfstests) uses v1 encryption policies, and
> > it relies on userspace inserting a test key into the session keyring.
> > 
> > We need test_dummy_encryption to support v2 encryption policies too.
> > Requiring userspace to add the test key doesn't work well with v2
> > policies, since v2 policies only support the filesystem keyring (not the
> > session keyring), and keys in the filesystem keyring are lost when the
> > filesystem is unmounted.  Hooking all test code that unmounts and
> > re-mounts the filesystem would be difficult.
> > 
> > Instead, let's make the filesystem automatically add the test key to its
> > keyring when test_dummy_encryption is enabled.
> > 
> > That puts the responsibility for choosing the test key on the kernel.
> > We could just hard-code a key.  But out of paranoia, let's first try
> > using a per-boot random key, to prevent this code from being misused.
> > A per-boot key will work as long as no one expects dummy-encrypted files
> > to remain accessible after a reboot.  (gce-xfstests doesn't.)
> > 
> > Therefore, this patch adds a function fscrypt_add_test_dummy_key() which
> > implements the above.  The next patch will use it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>



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