From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 17:44:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506004450.GF128280@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506002947.GF18421@twin.jikos.cz>
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 02:29:48AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> Back to the example. The problem with deprecation hasn't been brought up
> so far but I probably lack imagination _how_ can an attacker choose the
> algorithm in the context of the filesystem.
They just set the field on-disk that specifies the authentication algorithm.
> If some algorithm is found to be broken and unsuitable for
> authentication it will be a big thing. Users will be sure told to stop
> using it but the existing deployments can't be saved. The support from
> mkfs can be removed, kernel will warn or refuse to mount the
> filesystems, etc. but what else can be done from the design point of
> view?
Require that the authentication algorithm be passed as a mount option, and
validate that it matches what's on-disk.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 10:58 [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-29 7:23 ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-29 11:46 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-01 5:39 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-01 6:30 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-04 8:38 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 22:33 ` David Sterba
2020-05-06 8:10 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-04 10:09 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-04 20:59 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-05 8:11 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 9:26 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 9:59 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 22:32 ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 23:55 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-06 20:40 ` btree [was Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support] Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-05-05 22:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support David Sterba
2020-05-05 22:37 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-06 8:30 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 22:14 ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 22:31 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-05 22:46 ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 23:31 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-06 0:29 ` David Sterba
2020-05-06 0:44 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2020-05-04 21:37 ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-05 7:46 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 11:56 ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-04 21:59 ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-05 7:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 12:36 ` Jeff Mahoney
2020-05-05 12:39 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 12:41 ` Jeff Mahoney
2020-05-05 12:48 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 23:02 ` David Sterba
2020-05-06 21:24 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-05-05 23:00 ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 9:43 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-06 20:59 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: rename btrfs_parse_device_options back to btrfs_parse_early_options Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-01 6:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS Eric Biggers
2020-05-04 8:39 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 23:16 ` David Sterba
2020-05-01 21:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-05-05 23:38 ` David Sterba
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