[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] crypto: switch to crypto API for ESSIV generation

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 09:01, Milan Broz <gmazyland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/06/2019 15:52, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>> Does this include configurations that combine authenc with essiv?
> >>>
> >>> Hm, seems that we are missing these in luks2-integrity-test. I'll add them there.
> >>>
> >>> I also used this older test
> >>> https://gitlab.com/omos/dm-crypt-test-scripts/blob/master/root/test_dmintegrity.sh
> >>>
> >>> (just aes-gcm-random need to be commented out, we never supported this format, it was
> >>> written for some devel version)
> >>>
> >>> But seems ESSIV is there tested only without AEAD composition...
> >>>
> >>> So yes, this AEAD part need more testing.
> >>
> >> And unfortunately it does not work - it returns EIO on sectors where it should not be data corruption.
> >>
> >> I added few lines with length-preserving mode with ESSIV + AEAD, please could you run luks2-integrity-test
> >> in cryptsetup upstream?
> >>
> >> This patch adds the tests:
> >> https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/commit/4c74ff5e5ae328cb61b44bf99f98d08ffee3366a
> >>
> >> It is ok on mainline kernel, fails with the patchset:
> >>
> >> # ./luks2-integrity-test
> >> [aes-cbc-essiv:sha256:hmac-sha256:128:512][FORMAT][ACTIVATE]sha256sum: /dev/mapper/dmi_test: Input/output error
> >> [FAIL]
> >>  Expecting ee501705a084cd0ab6f4a28014bcf62b8bfa3434de00b82743c50b3abf06232c got .
> >>
> >> FAILED backtrace:
> >> 77 ./luks2-integrity-test
> >> 112 intformat ./luks2-integrity-test
> >> 127 main ./luks2-integrity-test
> >>
> >
> > OK, I will investigate.
> >
> > I did my testing in a VM using a volume that was created using a
> > distro kernel, and mounted and used it using a kernel with these
> > changes applied.
> >
> > Likewise, if I take a working key.img and mode-test.img, i can mount
> > it and use it on the system running these patches.
> >
> > I noticed that this test uses algif_skcipher not algif_aead when it
> > formats the volume, and so I wonder if the way userland creates the
> > image is affected by this?
>
> Not sure if I understand the question, but I do not think userspace even touch data area here
> (except direct-io wiping after the format, but it does not read it back).
>
> It only encrypts keyslots - and here we cannot use AEAD (in fact it is already
> authenticated by a LUKS digest).
>
> So if the data area uses AEAD (or composition of length-preserving mode and
> some authentication tag like HMAC), we fallback to non-AEAD for keyslot encryption.
>
> In short, to test it, you need to activate device (that works ok with your patches)
> and *access* the data, testing LUKS format and just keyslot access will never use AEAD.
>
> So init the data by direct-io writes, and try to read them back (with dd).
>
> For testing data on dm-integrity (or dm-crypt with AEAD encryption stacked oved dm-integrity)
> I used small utility, maybe it could be useful https://github.com/mbroz/dm_int_tools
>

Thanks.

It appears that my code generates the wrong authentication tags on
encryption, but on decryption it works fine.
I'll keep digging ...