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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 121 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst | 2 |
5 files changed, 104 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst index f200d7874495..57c6ae23b3fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ may not. All metadatas can be now observed in two different spaces (views): | | |__________________| 64 bytes - Xattrs, extents, data inline are followed by the corresponding inode with + Xattrs, extents, data inline are placed after the corresponding inode with proper alignment, and they could be optional for different data mappings. _currently_ total 5 data layouts are supported: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index a624e92f2687..1b84f818e574 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ DIRECT_KEY policies The Adiantum encryption mode (see `Encryption modes and usage`_) is suitable for both contents and filenames encryption, and it accepts -long IVs --- long enough to hold both an 8-byte logical block number -and a 16-byte per-file nonce. Also, the overhead of each Adiantum key -is greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key. +long IVs --- long enough to hold both an 8-byte data unit index and a +16-byte per-file nonce. Also, the overhead of each Adiantum key is +greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key. Therefore, to improve performance and save memory, for Adiantum a "direct key" configuration is supported. When the user has enabled @@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies work like IV_INO_LBLK_64, except that for IV_INO_LBLK_32, the inode number is hashed with SipHash-2-4 (where the -SipHash key is derived from the master key) and added to the file -logical block number mod 2^32 to produce a 32-bit IV. +SipHash key is derived from the master key) and added to the file data +unit index mod 2^32 to produce a 32-bit IV. This format is optimized for use with inline encryption hardware compliant with the eMMC v5.2 standard, which supports only 32 IV bits @@ -451,31 +451,62 @@ acceleration is recommended: Contents encryption ------------------- -For file contents, each filesystem block is encrypted independently. -Starting from Linux kernel 5.5, encryption of filesystems with block -size less than system's page size is supported. - -Each block's IV is set to the logical block number within the file as -a little endian number, except that: - -- With CBC mode encryption, ESSIV is also used. Specifically, each IV - is encrypted with AES-256 where the AES-256 key is the SHA-256 hash - of the file's data encryption key. - -- With `DIRECT_KEY policies`_, the file's nonce is appended to the IV. - Currently this is only allowed with the Adiantum encryption mode. - -- With `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_, the logical block number is limited - to 32 bits and is placed in bits 0-31 of the IV. The inode number - (which is also limited to 32 bits) is placed in bits 32-63. - -- With `IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies`_, the logical block number is limited - to 32 bits and is placed in bits 0-31 of the IV. The inode number - is then hashed and added mod 2^32. - -Note that because file logical block numbers are included in the IVs, -filesystems must enforce that blocks are never shifted around within -encrypted files, e.g. via "collapse range" or "insert range". +For contents encryption, each file's contents is divided into "data +units". Each data unit is encrypted independently. The IV for each +data unit incorporates the zero-based index of the data unit within +the file. This ensures that each data unit within a file is encrypted +differently, which is essential to prevent leaking information. + +Note: the encryption depending on the offset into the file means that +operations like "collapse range" and "insert range" that rearrange the +extent mapping of files are not supported on encrypted files. + +There are two cases for the sizes of the data units: + +* Fixed-size data units. This is how all filesystems other than UBIFS + work. A file's data units are all the same size; the last data unit + is zero-padded if needed. By default, the data unit size is equal + to the filesystem block size. On some filesystems, users can select + a sub-block data unit size via the ``log2_data_unit_size`` field of + the encryption policy; see `FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY`_. + +* Variable-size data units. This is what UBIFS does. Each "UBIFS + data node" is treated as a crypto data unit. Each contains variable + length, possibly compressed data, zero-padded to the next 16-byte + boundary. Users cannot select a sub-block data unit size on UBIFS. + +In the case of compression + encryption, the compressed data is +encrypted. UBIFS compression works as described above. f2fs +compression works a bit differently; it compresses a number of +filesystem blocks into a smaller number of filesystem blocks. +Therefore a f2fs-compressed file still uses fixed-size data units, and +it is encrypted in a similar way to a file containing holes. + +As mentioned in `Key hierarchy`_, the default encryption setting uses +per-file keys. In this case, the IV for each data unit is simply the +index of the data unit in the file. However, users can select an +encryption setting that does not use per-file keys. For these, some +kind of file identifier is incorporated into the IVs as follows: + +- With `DIRECT_KEY policies`_, the data unit index is placed in bits + 0-63 of the IV, and the file's nonce is placed in bits 64-191. + +- With `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_, the data unit index is placed in + bits 0-31 of the IV, and the file's inode number is placed in bits + 32-63. This setting is only allowed when data unit indices and + inode numbers fit in 32 bits. + +- With `IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies`_, the file's inode number is hashed + and added to the data unit index. The resulting value is truncated + to 32 bits and placed in bits 0-31 of the IV. This setting is only + allowed when data unit indices and inode numbers fit in 32 bits. + +The byte order of the IV is always little endian. + +If the user selects FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CBC for the contents mode, an +ESSIV layer is automatically included. In this case, before the IV is +passed to AES-128-CBC, it is encrypted with AES-256 where the AES-256 +key is the SHA-256 hash of the file's contents encryption key. Filenames encryption -------------------- @@ -544,7 +575,8 @@ follows:: __u8 contents_encryption_mode; __u8 filenames_encryption_mode; __u8 flags; - __u8 __reserved[4]; + __u8 log2_data_unit_size; + __u8 __reserved[3]; __u8 master_key_identifier[FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE]; }; @@ -586,6 +618,29 @@ This structure must be initialized as follows: The DIRECT_KEY, IV_INO_LBLK_64, and IV_INO_LBLK_32 flags are mutually exclusive. +- ``log2_data_unit_size`` is the log2 of the data unit size in bytes, + or 0 to select the default data unit size. The data unit size is + the granularity of file contents encryption. For example, setting + ``log2_data_unit_size`` to 12 causes file contents be passed to the + underlying encryption algorithm (such as AES-256-XTS) in 4096-byte + data units, each with its own IV. + + Not all filesystems support setting ``log2_data_unit_size``. ext4 + and f2fs support it since Linux v6.7. On filesystems that support + it, the supported nonzero values are 9 through the log2 of the + filesystem block size, inclusively. The default value of 0 selects + the filesystem block size. + + The main use case for ``log2_data_unit_size`` is for selecting a + data unit size smaller than the filesystem block size for + compatibility with inline encryption hardware that only supports + smaller data unit sizes. ``/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto/`` may be + useful for checking which data unit sizes are supported by a + particular system's inline encryption hardware. + + Leave this field zeroed unless you are certain you need it. Using + an unnecessarily small data unit size reduces performance. + - For v2 encryption policies, ``__reserved`` must be zeroed. - For v1 encryption policies, ``master_key_descriptor`` specifies how @@ -1079,8 +1134,8 @@ The caller must zero all input fields, then fill in ``key_spec``: On success, 0 is returned and the kernel fills in the output fields: - ``status`` indicates whether the key is absent, present, or - incompletely removed. Incompletely removed means that the master - secret has been removed, but some files are still in use; i.e., + incompletely removed. Incompletely removed means that removal has + been initiated, but some files are still in use; i.e., `FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY`_ returned 0 but set the informational status flag FSCRYPT_KEY_REMOVAL_STATUS_FLAG_FILES_BUSY. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst index 4b30daee399a..198d805d611c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst @@ -241,3 +241,10 @@ following flags are defined: all of an inode's dirty data on last close. Exports that behave this way should set EXPORT_OP_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE so that NFSD knows to skip waiting for writeback when closing such files. + + EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK - Indicates a capable filesystem to do async lock + requests from lockd. Only set EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK if the filesystem has + it's own ->lock() functionality as core posix_lock_file() implementation + has no async lock request handling yet. For more information about how to + indicate an async lock request from a ->lock() file_operations struct, see + fs/locks.c and comment for the function vfs_lock_file(). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 2b59cff8be17..49ef12df631b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -689,9 +689,15 @@ files are there, and which are missing. File Content ============ =============================================================== apm Advanced power management info + bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config, + and, if there were kernel parameters from the + boot loader, a "# Parameters from bootloader:" + line followed by a line containing those + parameters prefixed by "# ". (5.5) buddyinfo Kernel memory allocator information (see text) (2.5) bus Directory containing bus specific information - cmdline Kernel command line + cmdline Kernel command line, both from bootloader and embedded + in the kernel image cpuinfo Info about the CPU devices Available devices (block and character) dma Used DMS channels diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst index 1625d1131093..a0678101a7d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst @@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ The transaction sequence looks like this: 2. The second transaction contains a physical update to the free space btrees of AG 3 to release the former BMBT block and a second physical update to the free space btrees of AG 7 to release the unmapped file space. - Observe that the the physical updates are resequenced in the correct order + Observe that the physical updates are resequenced in the correct order when possible. Attached to the transaction is a an extent free done (EFD) log item. The EFD contains a pointer to the EFI logged in transaction #1 so that log |