linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 07/18] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvy7WsV7Qo42yTbsZf9YnW563a0k6Yx2-NmASNtoektu_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:52:38 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>,
        "open list:ABI/API" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 07/18] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:55 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
> +#define FSCRYPT_FS_KEYRING_DESCRIPTION_SIZE    \
> +       (CONST_STRLEN("fscrypt-") + FIELD_SIZEOF(struct super_block, s_id))
> +
> +#define FSCRYPT_MK_DESCRIPTION_SIZE    (2 * FSCRYPT_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE + 1)
> +
> +static void format_fs_keyring_description(
> +                       char description[FSCRYPT_FS_KEYRING_DESCRIPTION_SIZE],
> +                       const struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +       sprintf(description, "fscrypt-%s", sb->s_id);
> +}

I fear ->s_id is not the right thing.
For filesystems such as ext4 ->s_id is the name of the backing block device,
so it is per filesysem instance unique.
But this is not guaranteed. For UBIFS ->s_id is just "ubifs", always.
So the names will clash.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard