From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Lawrence <paullawrence@google.com>,
"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: support passing a keyring key to FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 08:57:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200103165727.GB19521@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119222447.226853-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 02:24:47PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
>
> Extend the FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl to allow the raw key to be
> specified by a Linux keyring key, rather than specified directly.
>
> This is useful because fscrypt keys belong to a particular filesystem
> instance, so they are destroyed when that filesystem is unmounted.
> Usually this is desired. But in some cases, userspace may need to
> unmount and re-mount the filesystem while keeping the keys, e.g. during
> a system update. This requires keeping the keys somewhere else too.
>
> The keys could be kept in memory in a userspace daemon. But depending
> on the security architecture and assumptions, it can be preferable to
> keep them only in kernel memory, where they are unreadable by userspace.
>
> We also can't solve this by going back to the original fscrypt API
> (where for each file, the master key was looked up in the process's
> keyring hierarchy) because that caused lots of problems of its own.
>
> Therefore, add the ability for FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY to accept a
> Linux keyring key. This solves the problem by allowing userspace to (if
> needed) save the keys securely in a Linux keyring for re-provisioning,
> while still using the new fscrypt key management ioctls.
>
> This is analogous to how dm-crypt accepts a Linux keyring key, but the
> key is then stored internally in the dm-crypt data structures rather
> than being looked up again each time the dm-crypt device is accessed.
>
> Use a custom key type "fscrypt-provisioning" rather than one of the
> existing key types such as "logon". This is strongly desired because it
> enforces that these keys are only usable for a particular purpose: for
> fscrypt as input to a particular KDF. Otherwise, the keys could also be
> passed to any kernel API that accepts a "logon" key with any service
> prefix, e.g. dm-crypt, UBIFS, or (recently proposed) AF_ALG. This would
> risk leaking information about the raw key despite it ostensibly being
> unreadable. Of course, this mistake has already been made for multiple
> kernel APIs; but since this is a new API, let's do it right.
>
> This patch has been tested using an xfstest which I wrote to test it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Applied to fscrypt.git#master for 5.6.
- Eric
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