[Bug 1712027] Re: qemu: Cryptography adding encrypted disk with luks format failed

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[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  qemu: Cryptography adding encrypted disk with luks format failed

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I'm using libvirt to attach luks encrypted disk to a running VM. The
  qemu-monitor-command like the

  following:

  {"execute":"object-add","arguments":{"qom-type":"secret","id":"virtio-
  disk11-luks-
  secret0","props":{"data":"El7jOYLCZwrij2Mue0q2tA==","keyid":"masterKey0","iv":"J2je0WJjCa89L3iKc1lceg==","format":"base64"}}

  the masterKey0 specify the secret which has been created before.

  command above return with error message "Incorrect number of padding
  bytes XXX found on decrypted

  data". This is triggered by the following code snippets in qemu/crypto/secret.c:
           
  if (plaintext[ciphertextlen - 1] > 16 ||
               plaintext[ciphertextlen - 1] > ciphertextlen) {
               error_setg(errp, "Incorrect number of padding bytes (%d) "
                       "found on decrypted data",
                       (int)plaintext[ciphertextlen - 1]); 
                     …
           }

  The bug is: There is on padding in plaintext if the actual length of
  the plaintext  decrypted is

  equal to ciphertext.

  In this case, the last element in plaintext array may be one of the
  character in base64 code table

  or other.

  I would like to know why length of padding bytes cannot exceed 16 and
  whether i can remove

  judement: “plaintext[ciphertextlen - 1] > 16” so that I can eliminate
  the error above.

  Much appreciate it if doubts above is cleared up.

  libvirt/qemu version:

  # virsh version
  Compiled against library: libvirt 3.0.0
  Using library: libvirt 3.0.0
  Using API: QEMU 3.0.0
  Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.7.1

  OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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