linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:44:53 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support

On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 11:55:19AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> (https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/heads/android-mainline/drivers/md/dm-default-key.c),
> and I've been looking for the best way to get the functionality upstream.  The
> main challenge is that dm-default-key is integrated with fscrypt, such that if
> fscrypt encrypts the data, then the data isn't also encrypted with the block
> device key.  There are also cases such as f2fs garbage collection in which
> filesystems read/write raw data without en/decryption by any key.  So
> essentially a passthrough mode is supported on individual I/O requests.

Adding a default key is not the job of a block remapping driver.  You'll
need to fit that into the file system and/or file system level helpers.

> 
> It looks like this patch not only does not support that, but it ignores the
> existence of fscrypt (or any other use of inline encryption by filesystems)
> entirely, and overrides any filesystem-provided key with the block device's.  At
> the very least, this case would need to be explicitly not supported initially,
> i.e. dm-inlinecrypt would error out if the upper layer already provided a key.

I agree that we have an incompatibility here, but simply erroring out
feels like the wrong way to approach the stacking.  If a stacking driver
consumes the inline encryption capability it must not advertise it to
the upper layers.