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Commit cdeb21da authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers
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fscrypt: add fscrypt_add_test_dummy_key()



Currently, the test_dummy_encryption mount option (which is used for
encryption I/O testing with xfstests) uses v1 encryption policies, and
it relies on userspace inserting a test key into the session keyring.

We need test_dummy_encryption to support v2 encryption policies too.
Requiring userspace to add the test key doesn't work well with v2
policies, since v2 policies only support the filesystem keyring (not the
session keyring), and keys in the filesystem keyring are lost when the
filesystem is unmounted.  Hooking all test code that unmounts and
re-mounts the filesystem would be difficult.

Instead, let's make the filesystem automatically add the test key to its
keyring when test_dummy_encryption is enabled.

That puts the responsibility for choosing the test key on the kernel.
We could just hard-code a key.  But out of paranoia, let's first try
using a per-boot random key, to prevent this code from being misused.
A per-boot key will work as long as no one expects dummy-encrypted files
to remain accessible after a reboot.  (gce-xfstests doesn't.)

Therefore, this patch adds a function fscrypt_add_test_dummy_key() which
implements the above.  The next patch will use it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200512233251.118314-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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