From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] block/crypto: implement the encryption key management
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 11:49:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05065ed2-6b42-ccae-64d9-4960885a7b8f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afdbbabe3a81e69b0699bca9f69112c317a5ebdc.camel@redhat.com>
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On 08.11.19 10:30, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 20:41 +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
>> On 13.09.19 00:30, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>>> This implements the encryption key management
>>> using the generic code in qcrypto layer
>>> (currently only for qemu-img amend)
>>>
>>> This code adds another 'write_func' because the initialization
>>> write_func works directly on the underlying file,
>>> because during the creation, there is no open instance
>>> of the luks driver, but during regular use, we have it,
>>> and should use it instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> This commit also adds a 'hack/workaround' I and Kevin Wolf (thanks)
>>> made to make the driver still support write sharing,
>>> but be safe against concurrent metadata update (the keys)
>>> Eventually write sharing for luks driver will be deprecated
>>> and removed together with this hack.
>>>
>>> The hack is that we ask (as a format driver) for
>>> BLK_PERM_CONSISTENT_READ always
>>> (technically always unless opened with BDRV_O_NO_IO)
>>>
>>> and then when we want to update the keys, we
>>> unshare that permission. So if someone else
>>> has the image open, even readonly, this will fail.
>>>
>>> Also thanks to Daniel Berrange for the variant of
>>> that hack that involves asking for read,
>>> rather that write permission
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> block/crypto.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/block/crypto.c b/block/crypto.c
>>> index a6a3e1f1d8..f42fa057e6 100644
>>> --- a/block/crypto.c
>>> +++ b/block/crypto.c
>>> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ typedef struct BlockCrypto BlockCrypto;
>>>
>>> struct BlockCrypto {
>>> QCryptoBlock *block;
>>> + bool updating_keys;
>>> };
>>>
>>>
>>> @@ -70,6 +71,24 @@ static ssize_t block_crypto_read_func(QCryptoBlock *block,
>>> return ret;
>>> }
>>>
>>> +static ssize_t block_crypto_write_func(QCryptoBlock *block,
>>> + size_t offset,
>>> + const uint8_t *buf,
>>> + size_t buflen,
>>> + void *opaque,
>>> + Error **errp)
>>
>> There’s already a function of this name for creation.
>
> There is a long story why two write functions are needed.
> i tried to use only one, but at the end I and Daniel both agreed
> that its just better to have two functions.
>
> The reason is that during creation, the luks BlockDriverState doesn't exist yet,
> and so the creation routine basically just writes to the underlying protocol driver.
>
> Thats is why the block_crypto_create_write_func receives a BlockBackend pointer,
> to which the BlockDriverState of the underlying protocol driver is inserted.
>
>
> On the other hand, for amend, the luks block device is open, and it only knows
> about its own BlockDriverState, and thus the io should be done on bs->file
>
> So instead of trying to coerce a single callback to do both of this,
> we decided to just have a little code duplication.
I meant: This doesn’t compile. There’s already another function of this
name.
Max
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-08 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-12 22:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] RFC crypto/luks: encryption key managment using amend interface Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] qcrypto: add suport for amend options Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-23 13:08 ` Eric Blake
2019-09-23 13:24 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] qcrypto-luks: extend the create options for upcoming encryption key management Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 17:42 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 9:28 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 10:48 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 11:48 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-07 7:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2019-11-08 9:28 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-10 13:44 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-11-08 10:04 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] qcrypto-luks: implement the " Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] block: amend: add 'force' option Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/11] block/crypto: implement the encryption key management Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 18:41 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 9:30 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 10:49 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2019-11-08 11:04 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 13:12 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 13:20 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/11] qcow2: implement crypto amend options Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] block: add x-blockdev-amend qmp command Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 18:53 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 9:26 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 10:36 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 13:37 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 9:27 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-07 7:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2019-11-08 15:38 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/11] block/crypto: implement blockdev-amend Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-07 7:58 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-11-08 15:36 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] block/qcow2: " Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 19:03 ` Max Reitz
2019-10-07 8:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-11-08 15:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-08 15:18 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] iotests: filter few more luks specific create options Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/11] iotests : add tests for encryption key management Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 19:11 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 9:28 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-20 21:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] RFC crypto/luks: encryption key managment using amend interface John Snow
2019-09-22 8:17 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-07 8:05 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-11-06 16:43 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-09-30 17:11 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-10-04 19:10 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-08 15:07 ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-11-12 11:58 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-12 12:07 ` Maxim Levitsky
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