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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 4 |
6 files changed, 36 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt index 8e2670781c9b..8fdb78f3c6c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ size when creating the filesystem. Currently 3 filesystems support DAX: ext2, ext4 and xfs. Enabling DAX on them is different. -Enabling DAX on ext4 and ext2 +Enabling DAX on ext2 ----------------------------- When mounting the filesystem, use the "-o dax" option on the command line or @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ add 'dax' to the options in /etc/fstab. This works to enable DAX on all files within the filesystem. It is equivalent to the '-o dax=always' behavior below. -Enabling DAX on xfs -------------------- +Enabling DAX on xfs and ext4 +---------------------------- Summary ------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst index 3e4c0ee0e068..e99ff3fd09f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst @@ -39,3 +39,6 @@ is encrypted as well as the data itself. Verity files cannot have blocks allocated past the end of the verity metadata. + +Verity and DAX are not compatible and attempts to set both of these flags +on a file will fail. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst index 1e7dade24a19..a11d329542f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst @@ -258,6 +258,12 @@ compress_extension=%s Support adding specified extension, so that f2fs can enab on compression extension list and enable compression on these file by default rather than to enable it via ioctl. For other files, we can still enable compression via ioctl. +inlinecrypt When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted + files using the blk-crypto framework rather than + filesystem-layer encryption. This allows the use of + inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is + unaffected. For more details, see + Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst. ======================== ============================================================ Debugfs Entries diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index f517af8ec11c..423c5a0daf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ setxattr() because of the special semantics of the encryption xattr. were to be added to or removed from anything other than an empty directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: - #define FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE 16 + #define FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE 16 #define FSCRYPT_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE 8 struct fscrypt_context_v1 { @@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: u8 filenames_encryption_mode; u8 flags; u8 master_key_descriptor[FSCRYPT_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE]; - u8 nonce[FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE]; + u8 nonce[FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE]; }; #define FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE 16 @@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ directory.) These structs are defined as follows:: u8 flags; u8 __reserved[4]; u8 master_key_identifier[FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE]; - u8 nonce[FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE]; + u8 nonce[FSCRYPT_FILE_NONCE_SIZE]; }; The context structs contain the same information as the corresponding @@ -1204,6 +1204,18 @@ buffer. Some filesystems, such as UBIFS, already use temporary buffers regardless of encryption. Other filesystems, such as ext4 and F2FS, have to allocate bounce pages specially for encryption. +Fscrypt is also able to use inline encryption hardware instead of the +kernel crypto API for en/decryption of file contents. When possible, +and if directed to do so (by specifying the 'inlinecrypt' mount option +for an ext4/F2FS filesystem), it adds encryption contexts to bios and +uses blk-crypto to perform the en/decryption instead of making use of +the above read/write path changes. Of course, even if directed to +make use of inline encryption, fscrypt will only be able to do so if +either hardware inline encryption support is available for the +selected encryption algorithm or CONFIG_BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK +is selected. If neither is the case, fscrypt will fall back to using +the above mentioned read/write path changes for en/decryption. + Filename hashing and encoding ----------------------------- @@ -1250,11 +1262,14 @@ Tests To test fscrypt, use xfstests, which is Linux's de facto standard filesystem test suite. First, run all the tests in the "encrypt" -group on the relevant filesystem(s). For example, to test ext4 and +group on the relevant filesystem(s). One can also run the tests +with the 'inlinecrypt' mount option to test the implementation for +inline encryption support. For example, to test ext4 and f2fs encryption using `kvm-xfstests <https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md>`_:: kvm-xfstests -c ext4,f2fs -g encrypt + kvm-xfstests -c ext4,f2fs -g encrypt -m inlinecrypt UBIFS encryption can also be tested this way, but it should be done in a separate command, and it takes some time for kvm-xfstests to set up @@ -1276,6 +1291,7 @@ This tests the encrypted I/O paths more thoroughly. To do this with kvm-xfstests, use the "encrypt" filesystem configuration:: kvm-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto + kvm-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto -m inlinecrypt Because this runs many more tests than "-g encrypt" does, it takes much longer to run; so also consider using `gce-xfstests @@ -1283,3 +1299,4 @@ much longer to run; so also consider using `gce-xfstests instead of kvm-xfstests:: gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto + gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto -m inlinecrypt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index c40d39c04889..64f94a18d97e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -467,7 +467,6 @@ prototypes:: int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **, unsigned long *); - int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *); void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *); int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *); int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *); @@ -483,14 +482,13 @@ release: yes ioctl: no compat_ioctl: no direct_access: no -media_changed: no unlock_native_capacity: no revalidate_disk: no getgeo: no swap_slot_free_notify: no (see below) ======================= =================== -media_changed, unlock_native_capacity and revalidate_disk are called only from +unlock_native_capacity and revalidate_disk are called only from check_disk_change(). swap_slot_free_notify is called with swap_lock and sometimes the page lock diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index e569abb09aa7..8ea83a51c266 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -560,8 +560,8 @@ When the NFS export feature is enabled, all directory index entries are verified on mount time to check that upper file handles are not stale. This verification may cause significant overhead in some cases. -Note: the mount options index=off,nfs_export=on are conflicting and will -result in an error. +Note: the mount options index=off,nfs_export=on are conflicting for a +read-write mount and will result in an error. Testsuite |