Re: [PATCH V2 3/7] fscrypt: remove filesystem specific build config option
From: Chandan Rajendra <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-08 07:07:28
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linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-s390
On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 5:13:21 AM IST Eric Biggers wrote:
Hi Chandan, On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:26:46PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:quoted
In order to have a common code base for fscrypt "post read" processing for all filesystems which support encryption, this commit removes filesystem specific build config option (e.g. CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION) and replaces it with a build option (i.e. CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) whose value affects all the filesystems making use of fscrypt. Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <redacted>[...]quoted
-config F2FS_FS_ENCRYPTION - bool "F2FS Encryption" - depends on F2FS_FS - depends on F2FS_FS_XATTR - select FS_ENCRYPTION - help - Enable encryption of f2fs files and directories. This - feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory - efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and - decrypted pages in the page cache. -[...]quoted
-config UBIFS_FS_ENCRYPTION - bool "UBIFS Encryption" - depends on UBIFS_FS && UBIFS_FS_XATTR && BLOCK - select FS_ENCRYPTION - default n - help - Enable encryption of UBIFS files and directories. This - feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory - efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and - decrypted pages in the page cache.Will it cause problems that now f2fs encryption can be "enabled" without F2FS_FS_XATTR, and ubifs encryption without UBIFS_FS_XATTR && BLOCK? Otherwise I think this patch looks fine. I'm a bit concerned about the bloat from making FS_ENCRYPTION non-modular, but given that it will make sharing I/O code much easier, it's probably worthwhile. It would help to strip down the dependencies of FS_ENCRYPTION to just the stuff needed for just AES-256-XTS and AES-256-CTS. I already sent out a patch a couple months ago (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10589319/) to remove CONFIG_CTR which isn't used at all; I'll remind Ted to apply that. But we could also drop CONFIG_SHA256, which is only needed for AES-128-CBC contents encryption. If we do that, it should be a separate patch, though.
Hi Eric,
fscrypt_valid_enc_modes() allows FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_128_CBC to be used for
encryption of file's contents. This is consistent with what you had mentioned
above.
static inline bool fscrypt_valid_enc_modes(u32 contents_mode,
u32 filenames_mode)
{
if (contents_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_128_CBC &&
filenames_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_128_CTS)
return true;
if (contents_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_XTS &&
filenames_mode == FS_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_CTS)
return true;
return false;
}
Hence FS_ENCRYPTION does need to have AES-128-CBC and by extension SHA256 code
compiled in right?
--
chandan