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Eric Biggers 2c2b751b6f fscrypt: support passing a keyring key to FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY
Extend the FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl to allow the raw key to be
specified by a Linux keyring key, rather than specified directly.

This is useful because fscrypt keys belong to a particular filesystem
instance, so they are destroyed when that filesystem is unmounted.
Usually this is desired.  But in some cases, userspace may need to
unmount and re-mount the filesystem while keeping the keys, e.g. during
a system update.  This requires keeping the keys somewhere else too.

The keys could be kept in memory in a userspace daemon.  But depending
on the security architecture and assumptions, it can be preferable to
keep them only in kernel memory, where they are unreadable by userspace.

We also can't solve this by going back to the original fscrypt API
(where for each file, the master key was looked up in the process's
keyring hierarchy) because that caused lots of problems of its own.

Therefore, add the ability for FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY to accept a
Linux keyring key.  This solves the problem by allowing userspace to (if
needed) save the keys securely in a Linux keyring for re-provisioning,
while still using the new fscrypt key management ioctls.

This is analogous to how dm-crypt accepts a Linux keyring key, but the
key is then stored internally in the dm-crypt data structures rather
than being looked up again each time the dm-crypt device is accessed.

Use a custom key type "fscrypt-provisioning" rather than one of the
existing key types such as "logon".  This is strongly desired because it
enforces that these keys are only usable for a particular purpose: for
fscrypt as input to a particular KDF.  Otherwise, the keys could also be
passed to any kernel API that accepts a "logon" key with any service
prefix, e.g. dm-crypt, UBIFS, or (recently proposed) AF_ALG.  This would
risk leaking information about the raw key despite it ostensibly being
unreadable.  Of course, this mistake has already been made for multiple
kernel APIs; but since this is a new API, let's do it right.

This patch has been tested using an xfstest which I wrote to test it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119222447.226853-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-02-12 19:35:16 -08:00
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asm-generic mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
drm drm/amdgpu: return tcc_disabled_mask to userspace 2019-10-02 12:58:33 -05:00
linux fscrypt: support passing a keyring key to FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY 2020-02-12 19:35:16 -08:00
misc habanalabs: stop using the acronym KMD 2019-09-05 14:55:27 +03:00
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rdma RDMA/mlx5: RDMA_RX flow type support for user applications 2019-08-26 10:30:00 -04:00
scsi scsi: use __u{8,16,32,64} instead of uint{8,16,32,64}_t in uapi headers 2019-08-12 22:19:27 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'asoc-5.4' into asoc-next 2019-09-09 14:55:20 +01:00
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