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Bae" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: ebiggers@kernel.org, elliott@hpe.com, gmazyland@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, mingo@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, ardb@kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, bernie.keany@intel.com, charishma1.gairuboyina@intel.com, lalithambika.krishnakumar@intel.com, nhuck@google.com, chang.seok.bae@intel.com, Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v8 01/12] Documentation/x86: Document Key Locker Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 08:22:16 -0700 Message-Id: <20230603152227.12335-2-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20230603152227.12335-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> References: <20230524165717.14062-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> <20230603152227.12335-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Document the overview of the feature along with relevant consideration when provisioning dm-crypt volumes with AES-KL instead of AES-NI. Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Changes from v6: * Rebase on the upstream -- commit ff61f0791ce9 ("docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/"). (Nathan Huckleberry) * Remove a duplicated sentence -- 'But there is no AES-KL instruction to process a 192-bit key.' * Update the text for clarity and readability: - Clarify the error code and exemplify the backup failure - Use 'wrapping key' instead of less readable 'IWKey' Changes from v5: * Fix a typo: 'feature feature' -> 'feature' Changes from RFC v2: * Add as a new patch. The preview is available here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/intel-staging/keylocker/kdoc/arch/x86/keylocker.html --- Documentation/arch/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/arch/x86/keylocker.rst | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 98 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/x86/keylocker.rst diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/index.rst index c73d133fd37c..256359c24669 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/index.rst @@ -42,3 +42,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation features elf_auxvec xstate + keylocker diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/keylocker.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/keylocker.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5557b8d0659a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/keylocker.rst @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============== +x86 Key Locker +============== + +Introduction +============ + +Key Locker is a CPU feature to reduce key exfiltration opportunities +while maintaining a programming interface similar to AES-NI. It +converts the AES key into an encoded form, called the 'key handle'. +The key handle is a wrapped version of the clear-text key where the +wrapping key has limited exposure. Once converted, all subsequent data +encryption using new AES instructions (AES-KL) uses this key handle, +reducing the exposure of private key material in memory. + +CPU-internal Wrapping Key +========================= + +The CPU-internal wrapping key is an entity in a software-invisible CPU +state. On every system boot, a new key is loaded. So the key handle that +was encoded by the old wrapping key is no longer usable on system shutdown +or reboot. + +And the key may be lost on the following exceptional situation upon wakeup: + +Wrapping Key Restore Failure +---------------------------- + +The CPU state is volatile with the ACPI S3/4 sleep states. When the system +supports those states, the key has to be backed up so that it is restored +on wake up. The kernel saves the key in non-volatile media. + +The event of a wrapping key restore failure upon resume from suspend, all +established key handles become invalid. In flight dm-crypt operations +receive error results from pending operations. In the likely scenario that +dm-crypt is hosting the root filesystem the recovery is identical to if a +storage controller failed to resume from suspend, reboot. If the volume +impacted by a wrapping key restore failure is a data-volume then it is +possible that I/O errors on that volume do not bring down the rest of the +system. However, a reboot is still required because the kernel will have +soft-disabled Key Locker. Upon the failure, the crypto library code will +return -ENODEV on every AES-KL function call. The Key Locker implementation +only loads a new wrapping key at initial boot, not any time after like +resume from suspend. + +Use Case and Non-use Cases +========================== + +Bare metal disk encryption is the only intended use case. + +Userspace usage is not supported because there is no ABI provided to +communicate and coordinate wrapping-key restore failure to userspace. For +now, key restore failures are only coordinated with kernel users. But the +kernel can not prevent userspace from using the feature's AES instructions +('AES-KL') when the feature has been enabled. So, the lack of userspace +support is only documented, not actively enforced. + +Key Locker is not expected to be advertised to guest VMs and the kernel +implementation ignores it even if the VMM enumerates the capability. The +expectation is that a guest VM wants private wrapping key state, but the +architecture does not provide that. An emulation of that capability, by +caching per-VM wrapping keys in memory, defeats the purpose of Key Locker. +The backup / restore facility is also not performant enough to be suitable +for guest VM context switches. + +AES Instruction Set +=================== + +The feature accompanies a new AES instruction set. This instruction set is +analogous to AES-NI. A set of AES-NI instructions can be mapped to an +AES-KL instruction. For example, AESENC128KL is responsible for ten rounds +of transformation, which is equivalent to nine times AESENC and one +AESENCLAST in AES-NI. + +But they have some notable differences: + +* AES-KL provides a secure data transformation using an encrypted key. + +* If an invalid key handle is provided, e.g. a corrupted one or a handle + restriction failure, the instruction fails with setting RFLAGS.ZF. The + crypto library implementation includes the flag check to return -EINVAL. + Note that this flag is also set if the wrapping key is changed, e.g., + because of the backup error. + +* AES-KL implements support for 128-bit and 256-bit keys, but there is no + AES-KL instruction to process an 192-bit key. The AES-KL cipher + implementation logs a warning message with a 192-bit key and then falls + back to AES-NI. So, this 192-bit key-size limitation is only documented, + not enforced. It means the key will remain in clear-text in memory. This + is to meet Linux crypto-cipher expectation that each implementation must + support all the AES-compliant key sizes. + +* Some AES-KL hardware implementation may have noticeable performance + overhead when compared with AES-NI instructions. + -- 2.17.1