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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2019-10-25 00:54:36 +0300
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2019-11-06 23:34:36 +0300
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fscrypt: add support for IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies
Inline encryption hardware compliant with the UFS v2.1 standard or with the upcoming version of the eMMC standard has the following properties: (1) Per I/O request, the encryption key is specified by a previously loaded keyslot. There might be only a small number of keyslots. (2) Per I/O request, the starting IV is specified by a 64-bit "data unit number" (DUN). IV bits 64-127 are assumed to be 0. The hardware automatically increments the DUN for each "data unit" of configurable size in the request, e.g. for each filesystem block. Property (1) makes it inefficient to use the traditional fscrypt per-file keys. Property (2) precludes the use of the existing DIRECT_KEY fscrypt policy flag, which needs at least 192 IV bits. Therefore, add a new fscrypt policy flag IV_INO_LBLK_64 which causes the encryption to modified as follows: - The encryption keys are derived from the master key, encryption mode number, and filesystem UUID. - The IVs are chosen as (inode_number << 32) | file_logical_block_num. For filenames encryption, file_logical_block_num is 0. Since the file nonces aren't used in the key derivation, many files may share the same encryption key. This is much more efficient on the target hardware. Including the inode number in the IVs and mixing the filesystem UUID into the keys ensures that data in different files is nevertheless still encrypted differently. Additionally, limiting the inode and block numbers to 32 bits and placing the block number in the low bits maintains compatibility with the 64-bit DUN convention (property (2) above). Since this scheme assumes that inode numbers are stable (which may preclude filesystem shrinking) and that inode and file logical block numbers are at most 32-bit, IV_INO_LBLK_64 will only be allowed on filesystems that meet these constraints. These are acceptable limitations for the cases where this format would actually be used. Note that IV_INO_LBLK_64 is an on-disk format, not an implementation. This patch just adds support for it using the existing filesystem layer encryption. A later patch will add support for inline encryption. Reviewed-by: Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@google.com> Co-developed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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@@ -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
---------------
@@ -342,10 +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
--------------------
@@ -355,10 +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
@@ -432,12 +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.
@@ -1090,7 +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
-----------------