From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:44:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150728144419.GA19760@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434885634-19895-4-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com>
On Sun 2015-06-21 13:20:34, Pali Rohár wrote:
> This patch adds dm message commands and option strings to optionally wipe key
> from dm-crypt device before entering suspend or hibernate state.
>
> Before key is wiped dm device must be suspended. To prevent race conditions with
> I/O and userspace processes, wiping action must be called after processes are
> freezed. Otherwise userspace processes could start reading/writing to disk after
> dm device is suspened and freezing processes before suspend/hibernate action
> will fail.
Are you sure this is enough?
We still may need to allocate memory after userspace is frozen, and
that could mean writing dirty buffers out to make some memory free...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-28 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-05 17:20 [PATCH 0/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation Pali Rohár
2015-04-05 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] PM suspend/hibernate: Call notifier after freezing processes Pali Rohár
2015-04-09 0:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-04-09 6:36 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-09 17:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-04-09 16:55 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-05 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] dm: Export function dm_suspend_md() Pali Rohár
2015-04-05 17:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation Pali Rohár
2015-04-07 13:55 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2015-04-06 13:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Mike Snitzer
2015-04-06 13:25 ` Pavel Machek
2015-04-06 20:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-04-06 21:13 ` Why wipe crypto keys during suspend (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation) Pavel Machek
2015-04-06 13:29 ` [PATCH 0/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation Pali Rohár
2015-04-06 18:17 ` Pavel Machek
2015-04-06 21:27 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-09 13:12 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-04-09 13:28 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-09 14:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-04-09 14:16 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-09 14:26 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-04-09 14:38 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-14 6:50 ` Pavel Machek
2015-04-23 17:02 ` Pali Rohár
[not found] ` <mgnv2g$if5$2@ger.gmane.org>
2015-04-17 7:52 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-04-17 8:52 ` [dm-devel] " Ondrej Kozina
2015-04-17 15:53 ` Alex Elsayed
2015-04-14 6:41 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-21 11:20 ` [PATCH v2 " Pali Rohár
2015-06-21 11:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] PM suspend/hibernate: Call notifier after freezing processes Pali Rohár
2015-07-16 1:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-16 7:33 ` Pali Rohár
2015-07-17 23:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-20 7:32 ` Pali Rohár
2015-07-20 21:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-21 22:08 ` NeilBrown
2015-07-21 23:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-21 23:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-12-27 14:29 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-21 11:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] dm: Export function dm_suspend_md() Pali Rohár
2015-07-17 14:04 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-07-17 14:22 ` Pali Rohár
2015-07-17 15:22 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-07-17 15:30 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-07-17 17:13 ` Pali Rohár
2015-07-17 17:31 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-06-21 11:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation Pali Rohár
2015-07-28 14:44 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-07-28 14:48 ` Pali Rohár
2015-07-07 7:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Pali Rohár
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