[dm-devel] [PATCH v9 3/7] md: dm-crypt: switch to ESSIV crypto API template

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 09:33, Milan Broz <gmazyland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/08/2019 11:40, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Replace the explicit ESSIV handling in the dm-crypt driver with calls
> > into the crypto API, which now possesses the capability to perform
> > this processing within the crypto subsystem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/md/Kconfig    |   1 +
> >  drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 194 ++++----------------
> >  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> > index 3834332f4963..b727e8f15264 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> ...
> > @@ -2493,6 +2339,20 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher_new(struct dm_target *ti, char *cipher_in, char *key
> >       if (*ivmode && !strcmp(*ivmode, "lmk"))
> >               cc->tfms_count = 64;
> >
> > +     if (*ivmode && !strcmp(*ivmode, "essiv")) {
> > +             if (!*ivopts) {
> > +                     ti->error = "Digest algorithm missing for ESSIV mode";
> > +                     return -EINVAL;
> > +             }
> > +             ret = snprintf(buf, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME, "essiv(%s,%s)",
> > +                            cipher_api, *ivopts);
>
> This is wrong. It works only in length-preserving modes, not in AEAD modes.
>
> Try for example
> # cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdc -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 --integrity hmac-sha256 -q -i1
>
> It should produce Crypto API string
>   authenc(hmac(sha256),essiv(cbc(aes),sha256))
> while it produces
>   essiv(authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)),sha256)
> (and fails).
>

No. I don't know why it fails, but the latter is actually the correct
string. The essiv template is instantiated either as a skcipher or as
an aead, and it encapsulates the entire transformation. (This is
necessary considering that the IV is passed via the AAD and so the
ESSIV handling needs to touch that as well)

This code worked fine in my testing: I could instantiate

essiv(authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)),sha256)
essiv(authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes)),sha256)

where the former worked as expected (including fuzz testing of the
arm64 implementation), and the second got instantiated as well, but
with a complaint about a missing test case.

So I'm not sure why this is failing, I will try to check once I have
access to my ordinary development environment.


> You can run "luks2-integrity-test" from cryptsetup test suite to detect it.
>
> Just the test does not fail, it prints N/A for ESSIV use cases - we need to deal with older kernels...
> I can probable change it to fail unconditionally though.
>
> ...
> > @@ -2579,9 +2439,19 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher_old(struct dm_target *ti, char *cipher_in, char *key
> >       if (!cipher_api)
> >               goto bad_mem;
> >
> > -     ret = snprintf(cipher_api, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME,
> > -                    "%s(%s)", chainmode, cipher);
> > -     if (ret < 0) {
> > +     if (*ivmode && !strcmp(*ivmode, "essiv")) {
> > +             if (!*ivopts) {
> > +                     ti->error = "Digest algorithm missing for ESSIV mode";
> > +                     kfree(cipher_api);
> > +                     return -EINVAL;
> > +             }
> > +             ret = snprintf(cipher_api, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME,
> > +                            "essiv(%s(%s),%s)", chainmode, cipher, *ivopts);
>
> I guess here it is ok, because old forma cannot use AEAD.
>
> Thanks,
> Milan