fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC

fscrypt provides facilities to use different encryption algorithms which
are selectable by userspace when setting the encryption policy. Currently,
only AES-256-XTS for file contents and AES-256-CBC-CTS for file names are
implemented. This is a clear case of kernel offers the mechanism and
userspace selects a policy. Similar to what dm-crypt and ecryptfs have.

This patch adds support for using AES-128-CBC for file contents and
AES-128-CBC-CTS for file name encryption. To mitigate watermarking
attacks, IVs are generated using the ESSIV algorithm. While AES-CBC is
actually slightly less secure than AES-XTS from a security point of view,
there is more widespread hardware support. Using AES-CBC gives us the
acceptable performance while still providing a moderate level of security
for persistent storage.

Especially low-powered embedded devices with crypto accelerators such as
CAAM or CESA often only support AES-CBC. Since using AES-CBC over AES-XTS
is basically thought of a last resort, we use AES-128-CBC over AES-256-CBC
since it has less encryption rounds and yields noticeable better
performance starting from a file size of just a few kB.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter <dwalter@sigma-star.at>
[david@sigma-star.at: addressed review comments]
Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fscrypt_common.h b/include/linux/fscrypt_common.h
index 0a30c106c1e5..4022c61f7e9b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscrypt_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscrypt_common.h
@@ -91,14 +91,18 @@ static inline bool fscrypt_dummy_context_enabled(struct inode *inode)
 	return false;
 }
 
-static inline bool fscrypt_valid_contents_enc_mode(u32 mode)
+static inline bool fscrypt_valid_enc_modes(u32 contents_mode,
+					u32 filenames_mode)
 {
-	return (mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_XTS);
-}
+	if (contents_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_128_CBC &&
+	    filenames_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_128_CTS)
+		return true;
 
-static inline bool fscrypt_valid_filenames_enc_mode(u32 mode)
-{
-	return (mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_CTS);
+	if (contents_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_XTS &&
+	    filenames_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_CTS)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
 }
 
 static inline bool fscrypt_is_dot_dotdot(const struct qstr *str)