kernel/linux.git/fs/crypto/policy.c, branch linux-7.1.y

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux

2025-09-29T22:33:50+00:00

Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers: "Make fs/crypto/ use the HMAC-SHA512 library functions instead of crypto_shash. This is simpler, faster, and more reliable" * tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux: fscrypt: use HMAC-SHA512 library for HKDF fscrypt: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN

fscrypt: use HMAC-SHA512 library for HKDF

2025-09-06T04:01:51+00:00

For the HKDF-SHA512 key derivation needed by fscrypt, just use the HMAC-SHA512 library functions directly. These functions were introduced in v6.17, and they provide simple and efficient direct support for HMAC-SHA512. This ends up being quite a bit simpler and more efficient than using crypto/hkdf.c, as it avoids the generic crypto layer: - The HMAC library can't fail, so callers don't need to handle errors - No inefficient indirect calls - No inefficient and error-prone dynamic allocations - No inefficient and error-prone loading of algorithm by name - Less stack usage Benchmarks on x86_64 show that deriving a per-file key gets about 30% faster, and FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY gets nearly twice as fast. The only small downside is the HKDF-Expand logic gets duplicated again. Then again, even considering that, the new fscrypt_hkdf_expand() is only 7 lines longer than the version that called hkdf_expand(). Later we could add HKDF support to lib/crypto/, but for now let's just do this. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250906035913.1141532-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

fscrypt: replace raw loads of info pointer with helper function

2025-08-21T11:58:06+00:00

Add and use a helper function fscrypt_get_inode_info_raw(). It loads an inode's fscrypt info pointer using a raw dereference, which is appropriate when the caller knows the key setup already happened. This eliminates most occurrences of inode::i_crypt_info in the source, in preparation for replacing that with a filesystem-specific field. Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810075706.172910-2-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fscrypt: Explicitly include

2025-06-20T21:30:23+00:00

Fix build warnings with W=1 that started appearing after commit a934a57a42f6 ("scripts/misc-check: check missing #include when W=1"). While at it, also sort the include lists alphabetically. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250614221301.100803-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

fscrypt: rename fscrypt_info => fscrypt_inode_info

2023-10-09T03:44:26+00:00

We are going to track per-extent information, so it'll be necessary to distinguish between inode infos and extent infos. Rename fscrypt_info to fscrypt_inode_info, adjusting any lines that now exceed 80 characters. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik [ebiggers: rebased onto fscrypt tree, renamed fscrypt_get_info(), adjusted two comments, and fixed some lines over 80 characters] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005025757.33521-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

fscrypt: support crypto data unit size less than filesystem block size

2023-09-26T05:34:33+00:00

Until now, fscrypt has always used the filesystem block size as the granularity of file contents encryption. Two scenarios have come up where a sub-block granularity of contents encryption would be useful: 1. Inline crypto hardware that only supports a crypto data unit size that is less than the filesystem block size. 2. Support for direct I/O at a granularity less than the filesystem block size, for example at the block device's logical block size in order to match the traditional direct I/O alignment requirement. (1) first came up with older eMMC inline crypto hardware that only supports a crypto data unit size of 512 bytes. That specific case ultimately went away because all systems with that hardware continued using out of tree code and never actually upgraded to the upstream inline crypto framework. But, now it's coming back in a new way: some current UFS controllers only support a data unit size of 4096 bytes, and there is a proposal to increase the filesystem block size to 16K. (2) was discussed as a "nice to have" feature, though not essential, when support for direct I/O on encrypted files was being upstreamed. Still, the fact that this feature has come up several times does suggest it would be wise to have available. Therefore, this patch implements it by using one of the reserved bytes in fscrypt_policy_v2 to allow users to select a sub-block data unit size. Supported data unit sizes are powers of 2 between 512 and the filesystem block size, inclusively. Support is implemented for both the FS-layer and inline crypto cases. This patch focuses on the basic support for sub-block data units. Some things are out of scope for this patch but may be addressed later: - Supporting sub-block data units in combination with FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_64, in most cases. Unfortunately this combination usually causes data unit indices to exceed 32 bits, and thus fscrypt_supported_policy() correctly disallows it. The users who potentially need this combination are using f2fs. To support it, f2fs would need to provide an option to slightly reduce its max file size. - Supporting sub-block data units in combination with FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_32. This has the same problem described above, but also it will need special code to make DUN wraparound still happen on a FS block boundary. - Supporting use case (2) mentioned above. The encrypted direct I/O code will need to stop requiring and assuming FS block alignment. This won't be hard, but it belongs in a separate patch. - Supporting this feature on filesystems other than ext4 and f2fs. (Filesystems declare support for it via their fscrypt_operations.) On UBIFS, sub-block data units don't make sense because UBIFS encrypts variable-length blocks as a result of compression. CephFS could support it, but a bit more work would be needed to make the fscrypt_*_block_inplace functions play nicely with sub-block data units. I don't think there's a use case for this on CephFS anyway. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925055451.59499-6-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

fscrypt: replace get_ino_and_lblk_bits with just has_32bit_inodes

2023-09-26T05:34:33+00:00

Now that fs/crypto/ computes the filesystem's lblk_bits from its maximum file size, it is no longer necessary for filesystems to provide lblk_bits via fscrypt_operations::get_ino_and_lblk_bits. It is still necessary for fs/crypto/ to retrieve ino_bits from the filesystem. However, this is used only to decide whether inode numbers fit in 32 bits. Also, ino_bits is static for all relevant filesystems, i.e. it doesn't depend on the filesystem instance. Therefore, in the interest of keeping things as simple as possible, replace 'get_ino_and_lblk_bits' with a flag 'has_32bit_inodes'. This can always be changed back to a function if a filesystem needs it to be dynamic, but for now a static flag is all that's needed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925055451.59499-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

fscrypt: compute max_lblk_bits from s_maxbytes and block size

2023-09-26T05:34:30+00:00

For a given filesystem, the number of bits used by the maximum file logical block number is computable from the maximum file size and the block size. These values are always present in struct super_block. Therefore, compute it this way instead of using the value from fscrypt_operations::get_ino_and_lblk_bits. Since filesystems always have to set the super_block fields anyway, this avoids having to provide this information redundantly via fscrypt_operations. This change is in preparation for adding support for sub-block data units. For that, the value that is needed will become "the maximum file data unit index". A hardcoded value won't suffice for that; it will need to be computed anyway. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925055451.59499-4-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers