linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] f2fs: add inline encryption support

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:53:20 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] f2fs: add inline encryption support

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:04:04PM +0000, Satya Tangirala via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote:
> Wire up f2fs to support inline encryption via the helper functions which
> fs/crypto/ now provides.  This includes:
> 
> - Adding a mount option 'inlinecrypt' which enables inline encryption
>   on encrypted files where it can be used.
> 
> - Setting the bio_crypt_ctx on bios that will be submitted to an
>   inline-encrypted file.
> 
> - Not adding logically discontiguous data to bios that will be submitted
>   to an inline-encrypted file.
> 
> - Not doing filesystem-layer crypto on inline-encrypted files.
> 
> This patch includes a fix for a race during IPU by
> Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Co-developed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst |  7 +++
>  fs/f2fs/compress.c                 |  2 +-
>  fs/f2fs/data.c                     | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  fs/f2fs/super.c                    | 35 ++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
> index 099d45ac8d8f..8b4fac44f4e1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
> @@ -258,6 +258,13 @@ compress_extension=%s  Support adding specified extension, so that f2fs can enab
>                         on compression extension list and enable compression on
>                         these file by default rather than to enable it via ioctl.
>                         For other files, we can still enable compression via ioctl.
> +inlinecrypt
> +                       When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted
> +                       files using the blk-crypto framework rather than
> +                       filesystem-layer encryption. This allows the use of
> +                       inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is
> +                       unaffected. For more details, see
> +                       Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
>  ====================== ============================================================

Last time I suggested adding "When possible, ", and it got added here but not in
the ext4 patch.  It should go in both.

- Eric