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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:18:53 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Coiby Xu <coxu@...hat.com>
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Ondrej Kozina <okozina@...hat.com>,
	Milan Broz <gmazyland@...il.com>,
	Thomas Staudt <tstaudt@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel P . Berrangé <berrange@...hat.com>,
	Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>,
	Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@...hat.com>,
	Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	"open list:KERNEL HARDENING (not covered by other areas):Keyword:b__counted_byb" <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the
 kdump kernel

On 06/07/24 at 08:27pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 04:22:12PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 05/23/24 at 01:04pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> > .....
> > > diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..78809189084a
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> [...]
> > > +
> > > +static unsigned int key_count;
> > > +static size_t keys_header_size;
> > 
> > These two global variables seems not so necessary. Please see comment at
> > below.
> 
> Thanks for the comment! But I think it's better to keep these two static
> variables for reasons as will be explained later.
> 
> > 
> > > +
> > > +struct dm_crypt_key {
> > > +	unsigned int key_size;
> > > +	char key_desc[KEY_DESC_LEN];
> > > +	u8 data[KEY_SIZE_MAX];
> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +static struct keys_header {
> > > +	unsigned int key_count;
> >                     ~~~~~~~~
> >                     This is the max number a system have from init();
> > You can add one field member to record how many key slots have been
> > used.
> > > +	struct dm_crypt_key keys[] __counted_by(key_count);
> > > +} *keys_header;
> > 
> > Maybe we can rearrange the keys_header like below, the name may not be
> > very appropriate though.
> > 
> > static struct keys_header {
> > 	unsigned int max_key_slots;
> > 	unsigned int used_key_slots;
> > 	struct dm_crypt_key keys[] __counted_by(key_count);
> > } *keys_header;
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion! Since 1) KEY_NUM_MAX already defines the
> maximum number of dm crypt keys 2) we only need to let the kdump kernel
> now how many keys are saved, so I simply use total_keys instead of
> key_count in struct keys_header in v5,
> 
> static struct keys_header {
> 	unsigned int total_keys;
> 	struct dm_crypt_key keys[] __counted_by(total_keys);
> } *keys_header;
> 
> Hopefully this renaming will improve code readability.

If you add key_count into keys_header, then kdump kernel will know how
many keys are really saved and need be retrieved. What's your concern
when you have to put key_count outside and take it as a global variable?

> 
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > +
> > > +static size_t get_keys_header_size(struct keys_header *keys_header,
> > > +				   size_t key_count)
> > > +{
> > > +	return struct_size(keys_header, keys, key_count);
> > > +}
> > 
> > I personally don't think get_keys_header_size is so necessary. If we
> > have to keep it, may be we can remove the global variable
> > keys_header_size, we can call get_keys_header_size() and use local
> > variable to record the value instead.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion! But the kdump kernel also need to call
> get_keys_header_size in later patches.

If so, you can remove keys_header_size now. You can define local
variable to take the newly calculated value. keys_header_size seems not
so necesary.

By the way, you don't need to rush to post v5. When people review
patches, agreement need be reached after discussion. Then next version
can be posted.