linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/4] fscrypt: support test_dummy

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Date:   Mon, 18 May 2020 20:02:05 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] fscrypt: support test_dummy_encryption=v2

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:53:55PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:32:50PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > 
> > v1 encryption policies are deprecated in favor of v2, and some new
> > features (e.g. encryption+casefolding) are only being added for v2.
> > 
> > Therefore, the "test_dummy_encryption" mount option (which is used for
> > encryption I/O testing with xfstests) needs to support v2 policies.
> > 
> > To do this, extend its syntax to be "test_dummy_encryption=v1" or
> > "test_dummy_encryption=v2".  The existing "test_dummy_encryption" (no
> > argument) also continues to be accepted, to specify the default setting
> > -- currently v1, but the next patch changes it to v2.
> > 
> > To cleanly support both v1 and v2 while also making it easy to support
> > specifying other encryption settings in the future (say, accepting
> > "$contents_mode:$filenames_mode:v2"), make ext4 and f2fs maintain a
> > pointer to the dummy fscrypt_context rather than using mount flags.
> > 
> > To avoid concurrency issues, don't allow test_dummy_encryption to be set
> > or changed during a remount.  (The former restriction is new, but
> > xfstests doesn't run into it, so no one should notice.)
> > 
> > Tested with 'gce-xfstests -c {ext4,f2fs}/encrypt -g auto'.  On ext4,
> > there are two regressions, both of which are test bugs: ext4/023 and
> > ext4/028 fail because they set an xattr and expect it to be stored
> > inline, but the increase in size of the fscrypt_context from
> > 24 to 40 bytes causes this xattr to be spilled into an external block.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> 
> Looks good, but could you do me a favor and merge in this?
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> index 04bfaf63752c..6c9fc9e21c13 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> @@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(batched_discard);
>  EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(meta_bg_resize);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION
>  EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(encryption);
> +EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(test_dummy_encryption_v2);
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
>  EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(casefold);
> @@ -308,6 +309,7 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_feat_attrs[] = {
>  	ATTR_LIST(meta_bg_resize),
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION
>  	ATTR_LIST(encryption),
> +	ATTR_LIST(test_dummy_encryption_v2),
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
>  	ATTR_LIST(casefold),
> 
> This will make it easier to have the gce-xfstests test runner know
> whether or not test_dummy_encryption=v1 / test_dummy_encryption=v2
> will work, and whether test_dummy_encryption tests v1 or v2.
> 

Thanks, I'll add that.  I assume you meant "Reviewed-by"?

- Eric