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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/crypto_key.c, branch v4.2.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ext4 crypto: use per-inode tfm structure</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T17:34:22+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-31T17:34:22+00:00</published>
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As suggested by Herbert Xu, we shouldn't allocate a new tfm each time
we read or write a page.  Instead we can use a single tfm hanging off
the inode's crypt_info structure for all of our encryption needs for
that inode, since the tfm can be used by multiple crypto requests in
parallel.

Also use cmpxchg() to avoid races that could result in crypt_info
structure getting doubly allocated or doubly freed.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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As suggested by Herbert Xu, we shouldn't allocate a new tfm each time
we read or write a page.  Instead we can use a single tfm hanging off
the inode's crypt_info structure for all of our encryption needs for
that inode, since the tfm can be used by multiple crypto requests in
parallel.

Also use cmpxchg() to avoid races that could result in crypt_info
structure getting doubly allocated or doubly freed.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4 crypto: get rid of ci_mode from struct ext4_crypt_info</title>
<updated>2015-05-18T17:20:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-18T17:20:47+00:00</published>
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The ci_mode field was superfluous, and getting rid of it gets rid of
an unused hole in the structure.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The ci_mode field was superfluous, and getting rid of it gets rid of
an unused hole in the structure.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4 crypto: use slab caches</title>
<updated>2015-05-18T17:19:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-18T17:19:47+00:00</published>
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Use slab caches the ext4_crypto_ctx and ext4_crypt_info structures for
slighly better memory efficiency and debuggability.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Use slab caches the ext4_crypto_ctx and ext4_crypt_info structures for
slighly better memory efficiency and debuggability.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4 crypto: reorganize how we store keys in the inode</title>
<updated>2015-05-18T17:17:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-18T17:17:47+00:00</published>
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This is a pretty massive patch which does a number of different things:

1) The per-inode encryption information is now stored in an allocated
   data structure, ext4_crypt_info, instead of directly in the node.
   This reduces the size usage of an in-memory inode when it is not
   using encryption.

2) We drop the ext4_fname_crypto_ctx entirely, and use the per-inode
   encryption structure instead.  This remove an unnecessary memory
   allocation and free for the fname_crypto_ctx as well as allowing us
   to reuse the ctfm in a directory for multiple lookups and file
   creations.

3) We also cache the inode's policy information in the ext4_crypt_info
   structure so we don't have to continually read it out of the
   extended attributes.

4) We now keep the keyring key in the inode's encryption structure
   instead of releasing it after we are done using it to derive the
   per-inode key.  This allows us to test to see if the key has been
   revoked; if it has, we prevent the use of the derived key and free
   it.

5) When an inode is released (or when the derived key is freed), we
   will use memset_explicit() to zero out the derived key, so it's not
   left hanging around in memory.  This implies that when a user logs
   out, it is important to first revoke the key, and then unlink it,
   and then finally, to use "echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" to
   release any decrypted pages and dcache entries from the system
   caches.

6) All this, and we also shrink the number of lines of code by around
   100.  :-)

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This is a pretty massive patch which does a number of different things:

1) The per-inode encryption information is now stored in an allocated
   data structure, ext4_crypt_info, instead of directly in the node.
   This reduces the size usage of an in-memory inode when it is not
   using encryption.

2) We drop the ext4_fname_crypto_ctx entirely, and use the per-inode
   encryption structure instead.  This remove an unnecessary memory
   allocation and free for the fname_crypto_ctx as well as allowing us
   to reuse the ctfm in a directory for multiple lookups and file
   creations.

3) We also cache the inode's policy information in the ext4_crypt_info
   structure so we don't have to continually read it out of the
   extended attributes.

4) We now keep the keyring key in the inode's encryption structure
   instead of releasing it after we are done using it to derive the
   per-inode key.  This allows us to test to see if the key has been
   revoked; if it has, we prevent the use of the derived key and free
   it.

5) When an inode is released (or when the derived key is freed), we
   will use memset_explicit() to zero out the derived key, so it's not
   left hanging around in memory.  This implies that when a user logs
   out, it is important to first revoke the key, and then unlink it,
   and then finally, to use "echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" to
   release any decrypted pages and dcache entries from the system
   caches.

6) All this, and we also shrink the number of lines of code by around
   100.  :-)

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4 crypto: separate kernel and userspace structure for the key</title>
<updated>2015-05-18T17:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-18T17:16:47+00:00</published>
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Use struct ext4_encryption_key only for the master key passed via the
kernel keyring.

For internal kernel space users, we now use struct ext4_crypt_info.
This will allow us to put information from the policy structure so we
can cache it and avoid needing to constantly looking up the extended
attribute.  We will do this in a spearate patch.  This patch is mostly
mechnical to make it easier for patch review.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Use struct ext4_encryption_key only for the master key passed via the
kernel keyring.

For internal kernel space users, we now use struct ext4_crypt_info.
This will allow us to put information from the policy structure so we
can cache it and avoid needing to constantly looking up the extended
attribute.  We will do this in a spearate patch.  This patch is mostly
mechnical to make it easier for patch review.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4 crypto: add padding to filenames before encrypting</title>
<updated>2015-05-01T20:56:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-05-01T20:56:50+00:00</published>
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This obscures the length of the filenames, to decrease the amount of
information leakage.  By default, we pad the filenames to the next 4
byte boundaries.  This costs nothing, since the directory entries are
aligned to 4 byte boundaries anyway.  Filenames can also be padded to
8, 16, or 32 bytes, which will consume more directory space.

Change-Id: Ibb7a0fb76d2c48e2061240a709358ff40b14f322
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This obscures the length of the filenames, to decrease the amount of
information leakage.  By default, we pad the filenames to the next 4
byte boundaries.  This costs nothing, since the directory entries are
aligned to 4 byte boundaries anyway.  Filenames can also be padded to
8, 16, or 32 bytes, which will consume more directory space.

Change-Id: Ibb7a0fb76d2c48e2061240a709358ff40b14f322
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4 crypto: enable encryption feature flag</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T05:56:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2015-04-16T05:56:00+00:00</published>
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Also add the test dummy encryption mode flag so we can more easily
test the encryption patches using xfstests.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Also add the test dummy encryption mode flag so we can more easily
test the encryption patches using xfstests.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4 crypto: add encryption key management facilities</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T04:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Halcrow</name>
<email>mhalcrow@google.com</email>
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<published>2015-04-12T04:55:06+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ildar Muslukhov &lt;muslukhovi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ildar Muslukhov &lt;muslukhovi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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