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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 8a0700af9596..68c2bc8275cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -256,13 +256,8 @@ alternative master keys or to support rotating master keys. Instead, the master keys may be wrapped in userspace, e.g. as is done by the `fscrypt <https://github.com/google/fscrypt>`_ tool. -Including the inode number in the IVs was considered. However, it was -rejected as it would have prevented ext4 filesystems from being -resized, and by itself still wouldn't have been sufficient to prevent -the same key from being directly reused for both XTS and CTS-CBC. - -DIRECT_KEY and per-mode keys ----------------------------- +DIRECT_KEY policies +------------------- The Adiantum encryption mode (see `Encryption modes and usage`_) is suitable for both contents and filenames encryption, and it accepts @@ -285,6 +280,21 @@ IV. Moreover: key derived using the KDF. Users may use the same master key for other v2 encryption policies. +IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies +----------------------- + +When FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_64 is set in the fscrypt policy, +the encryption keys are derived from the master key, encryption mode +number, and filesystem UUID. This normally results in all files +protected by the same master key sharing a single contents encryption +key and a single filenames encryption key. To still encrypt different +files' data differently, inode numbers are included in the IVs. +Consequently, shrinking the filesystem may not be allowed. + +This format is optimized for use with inline encryption hardware +compliant with the UFS or eMMC standards, which support only 64 IV +bits per I/O request and may have only a small number of keyslots. + Key identifiers --------------- @@ -308,8 +318,9 @@ If unsure, you should use the (AES-256-XTS, AES-256-CTS-CBC) pair. AES-128-CBC was added only for low-powered embedded devices with crypto accelerators such as CAAM or CESA that do not support XTS. To -use AES-128-CBC, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 (or another SHA-256 -implementation) must be enabled so that ESSIV can be used. +use AES-128-CBC, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ESSIV and CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 (or +another SHA-256 implementation) must be enabled so that ESSIV can be +used. Adiantum is a (primarily) stream cipher-based mode that is fast even on CPUs without dedicated crypto instructions. It's also a true @@ -331,8 +342,8 @@ Contents encryption ------------------- For file contents, each filesystem block is encrypted independently. -Currently, only the case where the filesystem block size is equal to -the system's page size (usually 4096 bytes) is supported. +Starting from Linux kernel 5.5, encryption of filesystems with block +size less than system's page size is supported. Each block's IV is set to the logical block number within the file as a little endian number, except that: @@ -341,10 +352,16 @@ a little endian number, except that: is encrypted with AES-256 where the AES-256 key is the SHA-256 hash of the file's data encryption key. -- In the "direct key" configuration (FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY - set in the fscrypt_policy), the file's nonce is also appended to the - IV. Currently this is only allowed with the Adiantum encryption - mode. +- With `DIRECT_KEY policies`_, the file's nonce is appended to the IV. + Currently this is only allowed with the Adiantum encryption mode. + +- With `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_, the logical block number is limited + to 32 bits and is placed in bits 0-31 of the IV. The inode number + (which is also limited to 32 bits) is placed in bits 32-63. + +Note that because file logical block numbers are included in the IVs, +filesystems must enforce that blocks are never shifted around within +encrypted files, e.g. via "collapse range" or "insert range". Filenames encryption -------------------- @@ -354,10 +371,10 @@ the requirements to retain support for efficient directory lookups and filenames of up to 255 bytes, the same IV is used for every filename in a directory. -However, each encrypted directory still uses a unique key; or -alternatively (for the "direct key" configuration) has the file's -nonce included in the IVs. Thus, IV reuse is limited to within a -single directory. +However, each encrypted directory still uses a unique key, or +alternatively has the file's nonce (for `DIRECT_KEY policies`_) or +inode number (for `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_) included in the IVs. +Thus, IV reuse is limited to within a single directory. With CTS-CBC, the IV reuse means that when the plaintext filenames share a common prefix at least as long as the cipher block size (16 @@ -431,12 +448,15 @@ This structure must be initialized as follows: (1) for ``contents_encryption_mode`` and FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_CTS (4) for ``filenames_encryption_mode``. -- ``flags`` must contain a value from ``<linux/fscrypt.h>`` which - identifies the amount of NUL-padding to use when encrypting - filenames. If unsure, use FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAGS_PAD_32 (0x3). - Additionally, if the encryption modes are both - FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM, this can contain - FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY; see `DIRECT_KEY and per-mode keys`_. +- ``flags`` contains optional flags from ``<linux/fscrypt.h>``: + + - FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAGS_PAD_*: The amount of NUL padding to use when + encrypting filenames. If unsure, use FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAGS_PAD_32 + (0x3). + - FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY: See `DIRECT_KEY policies`_. + - FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_64: See `IV_INO_LBLK_64 + policies`_. This is mutually exclusive with DIRECT_KEY and is not + supported on v1 policies. - For v2 encryption policies, ``__reserved`` must be zeroed. @@ -1089,7 +1109,7 @@ policy structs (see `Setting an encryption policy`_), except that the context structs also contain a nonce. The nonce is randomly generated by the kernel and is used as KDF input or as a tweak to cause different files to be encrypted differently; see `Per-file keys`_ and -`DIRECT_KEY and per-mode keys`_. +`DIRECT_KEY policies`_. Data path changes ----------------- |