lwn.git/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt, branch docs-6.1

docs: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

2019-06-14T20:21:04+00:00

The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas Acked-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

dm crypt: optionally support larger encryption sector size

2017-03-24T19:54:21+00:00

Add optional "sector_size" parameter that specifies encryption sector size (atomic unit of block device encryption). Parameter can be in range 512 - 4096 bytes and must be power of two. For compatibility reasons, the maximal IO must fit into the page limit, so the limit is set to the minimal page size possible (4096 bytes). NOTE: this device cannot yet be handled by cryptsetup if this parameter is set. IV for the sector is calculated from the 512 bytes sector offset unless the iv_large_sectors option is used. Test script using dmsetup: DEV="/dev/sdb" DEV_SIZE=$(blockdev --getsz $DEV) KEY="9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d31ddadef707ba62c166051b9e3cd0294c27515f2bccee924e8823ca6e124b8fc3167ed478bca702babe4e130ac" BLOCK_SIZE=4096 # dmsetup create test_crypt --table "0 $DEV_SIZE crypt aes-xts-plain64 $KEY 0 $DEV 0 1 sector_size:$BLOCK_SIZE" # dmsetup table --showkeys test_crypt Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: introduce new format of cipher with "capi:" prefix

2017-03-24T19:54:20+00:00

For the new authenticated encryption we have to support generic composed modes (combination of encryption algorithm and authenticator) because this is how the kernel crypto API accesses such algorithms. To simplify the interface, we accept an algorithm directly in crypto API format. The new format is recognised by the "capi:" prefix. The dmcrypt internal IV specification is the same as for the old format. The crypto API cipher specifications format is: capi:cipher_api_spec-ivmode[:ivopts] Examples: capi:cbc(aes)-essiv:sha256 (equivalent to old aes-cbc-essiv:sha256) capi:xts(aes)-plain64 (equivalent to old aes-xts-plain64) Examples of authenticated modes: capi:gcm(aes)-random capi:authenc(hmac(sha256),xts(aes))-random capi:rfc7539(chacha20,poly1305)-random Authenticated modes can only be configured using the new cipher format. Note that this format allows user to specify arbitrary combinations that can be insecure. (Policy decision is done in cryptsetup userspace.) Authenticated encryption algorithms can be of two types, either native modes (like GCM) that performs both encryption and authentication internally, or composed modes where user can compose AEAD with separate specification of encryption algorithm and authenticator. For composed mode with HMAC (length-preserving encryption mode like an XTS and HMAC as an authenticator) we have to calculate HMAC digest size (the separate authentication key is the same size as the HMAC digest). Introduce crypt_ctr_auth_cipher() to parse the crypto API string to get HMAC algorithm and retrieve digest size from it. Also, for HMAC composed mode we need to parse the crypto API string to get the cipher mode nested in the specification. For native AEAD mode (like GCM), we can use crypto_tfm_alg_name() API to get the cipher specification. Because the HMAC composed mode is not processed the same as the native AEAD mode, the CRYPT_MODE_INTEGRITY_HMAC flag is no longer needed and "hmac" specification for the table integrity argument is removed. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)

2017-03-24T19:49:41+00:00

Allow the use of per-sector metadata, provided by the dm-integrity module, for integrity protection and persistently stored per-sector Initialization Vector (IV). The underlying device must support the "DM-DIF-EXT-TAG" dm-integrity profile. The per-bio integrity metadata is allocated by dm-crypt for every bio. Example of low-level mapping table for various types of use: DEV=/dev/sdb SIZE=417792 # Additional HMAC with CBC-ESSIV, key is concatenated encryption key + HMAC key SIZE_INT=389952 dmsetup create x --table "0 $SIZE_INT integrity $DEV 0 32 J 0" dmsetup create y --table "0 $SIZE_INT crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 \ 11ff33c6fb942655efb3e30cf4c0fd95f5ef483afca72166c530ae26151dd83b \ 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff \ 0 /dev/mapper/x 0 1 integrity:32:hmac(sha256)" # AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data) - GCM with random IVs # GCM in kernel uses 96bits IV and we store 128bits auth tag (so 28 bytes metadata space) SIZE_INT=393024 dmsetup create x --table "0 $SIZE_INT integrity $DEV 0 28 J 0" dmsetup create y --table "0 $SIZE_INT crypt aes-gcm-random \ 11ff33c6fb942655efb3e30cf4c0fd95f5ef483afca72166c530ae26151dd83b \ 0 /dev/mapper/x 0 1 integrity:28:aead" # Random IV only for XTS mode (no integrity protection but provides atomic random sector change) SIZE_INT=401272 dmsetup create x --table "0 $SIZE_INT integrity $DEV 0 16 J 0" dmsetup create y --table "0 $SIZE_INT crypt aes-xts-random \ 11ff33c6fb942655efb3e30cf4c0fd95f5ef483afca72166c530ae26151dd83b \ 0 /dev/mapper/x 0 1 integrity:16:none" # Random IV with XTS + HMAC integrity protection SIZE_INT=377656 dmsetup create x --table "0 $SIZE_INT integrity $DEV 0 48 J 0" dmsetup create y --table "0 $SIZE_INT crypt aes-xts-random \ 11ff33c6fb942655efb3e30cf4c0fd95f5ef483afca72166c530ae26151dd83b \ 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff \ 0 /dev/mapper/x 0 1 integrity:48:hmac(sha256)" Both AEAD and HMAC protection authenticates not only data but also sector metadata. HMAC protection is implemented through autenc wrapper (so it is processed the same way as an authenticated mode). In HMAC mode there are two keys (concatenated in dm-crypt mapping table). First is the encryption key and the second is the key for authentication (HMAC). (It is userspace decision if these keys are independent or somehow derived.) The sector request for AEAD/HMAC authenticated encryption looks like this: |----- AAD -------|------ DATA -------|-- AUTH TAG --| | (authenticated) | (auth+encryption) | | | sector_LE | IV | sector in/out | tag in/out | For writes, the integrity fields are calculated during AEAD encryption of every sector and stored in bio integrity fields and sent to underlying dm-integrity target for storage. For reads, the integrity metadata is verified during AEAD decryption of every sector (they are filled in by dm-integrity, but the integrity fields are pre-allocated in dm-crypt). There is also an experimental support in cryptsetup utility for more friendly configuration (part of LUKS2 format). Because the integrity fields are not valid on initial creation, the device must be "formatted". This can be done by direct-io writes to the device (e.g. dd in direct-io mode). For now, there is available trivial tool to do this, see: https://github.com/mbroz/dm_int_tools Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Signed-off-by: Vashek Matyas Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2016-12-14T19:12:25+00:00

Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: NTB: correct ntb_spad_count comment typo misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE Remove last traces of ikconfig.h treewide: Fix printk() message errors Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/

Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/

2016-12-14T09:54:27+00:00

According to `man blockdev': --getsize Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option. ... --getsz Get size in 512-byte sectors. Hence, occurrences of `--getsize' should be replaced with `--getsz', which this commit has achieved as follows: $ cd "$repo" $ git grep -l -e --getsz Documentation/device-mapper/delay.txt Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt Documentation/device-mapper/linear.txt Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt Documentation/device-mapper/switch.txt $ cd Documentation/device-mapper $ sed -i s/getsize/getsz/g * Signed-off-by: Michael Witten Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

dm crypt: add ability to use keys from the kernel key retention service

2016-12-08T19:13:09+00:00

The kernel key service is a generic way to store keys for the use of other subsystems. Currently there is no way to use kernel keys in dm-crypt. This patch aims to fix that. Instead of key userspace may pass a key description with preceding ':'. So message that constructs encryption mapping now looks like this: [|:] [<#opt_params> ] where is in format: :: Currently we only support two elementary key types: 'user' and 'logon'. Keys may be loaded in dm-crypt either via or using classical method and pass the key in hex representation directly. dm-crypt device initialised with a key passed in hex representation may be replaced with key passed in key_string format and vice versa. (Based on original work by Andrey Ryabinin) Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina Reviewed-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page

2015-04-15T16:10:24+00:00

Cryptsetup home page moved to GitLab. Also remove link to abandonded Truecrypt page. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: add 'submit_from_crypt_cpus' option

2015-02-16T16:11:15+00:00

Make it possible to disable offloading writes by setting the optional 'submit_from_crypt_cpus' table argument. There are some situations where offloading write bios from the encryption threads to a single thread degrades performance significantly. The default is to offload write bios to the same thread because it benefits CFQ to have writes submitted using the same IO context. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: use unbound workqueue for request processing

2015-02-16T16:10:59+00:00

Use unbound workqueue by default so that work is automatically balanced between available CPUs. The original behavior of encrypting using the same cpu that IO was submitted on can still be enabled by setting the optional 'same_cpu_crypt' table argument. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer