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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index f517af8ec11c..423c5a0daf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ setxattr() because of the special semantics of the encryption xattr. were to be added to or removed from anything other than an empty directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: - #define FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE 16 + #define FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE 16 #define FSCRYPT_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE 8 struct fscrypt_context_v1 { @@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: u8 filenames_encryption_mode; u8 flags; u8 master_key_descriptor[FSCRYPT_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE]; - u8 nonce[FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE]; + u8 nonce[FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE]; }; #define FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE 16 @@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: u8 flags; u8 __reserved[4]; u8 master_key_identifier[FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE]; - u8 nonce[FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE]; + u8 nonce[FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE]; }; The context structs contain the same information as the corresponding @@ -1204,6 +1204,18 @@ buffer. Some filesystems, such as UBIFS, already use temporary buffers regardless of encryption. Other filesystems, such as ext4 and F2FS, have to allocate bounce pages specially for encryption. +Fscrypt is also able to use inline encryption hardware instead of the +kernel crypto API for en/decryption of file contents. When possible, +and if directed to do so (by specifying the 'inlinecrypt' mount option +for an ext4/F2FS filesystem), it adds encryption contexts to bios and +uses blk-crypto to perform the en/decryption instead of making use of +the above read/write path changes. Of course, even if directed to +make use of inline encryption, fscrypt will only be able to do so if +either hardware inline encryption support is available for the +selected encryption algorithm or CONFIG_BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK +is selected. If neither is the case, fscrypt will fall back to using +the above mentioned read/write path changes for en/decryption. + Filename hashing and encoding ----------------------------- @@ -1250,11 +1262,14 @@ Tests To test fscrypt, use xfstests, which is Linux's de facto standard filesystem test suite. First, run all the tests in the "encrypt" -group on the relevant filesystem(s). For example, to test ext4 and +group on the relevant filesystem(s). One can also run the tests +with the 'inlinecrypt' mount option to test the implementation for +inline encryption support. For example, to test ext4 and f2fs encryption using `kvm-xfstests <https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md>`_:: kvm-xfstests -c ext4,f2fs -g encrypt + kvm-xfstests -c ext4,f2fs -g encrypt -m inlinecrypt UBIFS encryption can also be tested this way, but it should be done in a separate command, and it takes some time for kvm-xfstests to set up @@ -1276,6 +1291,7 @@ This tests the encrypted I/O paths more thoroughly. To do this with kvm-xfstests, use the "encrypt" filesystem configuration:: kvm-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto + kvm-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto -m inlinecrypt Because this runs many more tests than "-g encrypt" does, it takes much longer to run; so also consider using `gce-xfstests @@ -1283,3 +1299,4 @@ much longer to run; so also consider using `gce-xfstests instead of kvm-xfstests:: gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto + gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto -m inlinecrypt |