fscrypt: support crypto data unit size less than filesystem block size

Until now, fscrypt has always used the filesystem block size as the
granularity of file contents encryption.  Two scenarios have come up
where a sub-block granularity of contents encryption would be useful:

1. Inline crypto hardware that only supports a crypto data unit size
   that is less than the filesystem block size.

2. Support for direct I/O at a granularity less than the filesystem
   block size, for example at the block device's logical block size in
   order to match the traditional direct I/O alignment requirement.

(1) first came up with older eMMC inline crypto hardware that only
supports a crypto data unit size of 512 bytes.  That specific case
ultimately went away because all systems with that hardware continued
using out of tree code and never actually upgraded to the upstream
inline crypto framework.  But, now it's coming back in a new way: some
current UFS controllers only support a data unit size of 4096 bytes, and
there is a proposal to increase the filesystem block size to 16K.

(2) was discussed as a "nice to have" feature, though not essential,
when support for direct I/O on encrypted files was being upstreamed.

Still, the fact that this feature has come up several times does suggest
it would be wise to have available.  Therefore, this patch implements it
by using one of the reserved bytes in fscrypt_policy_v2 to allow users
to select a sub-block data unit size.  Supported data unit sizes are
powers of 2 between 512 and the filesystem block size, inclusively.
Support is implemented for both the FS-layer and inline crypto cases.

This patch focuses on the basic support for sub-block data units.  Some
things are out of scope for this patch but may be addressed later:

- Supporting sub-block data units in combination with
  FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_64, in most cases.  Unfortunately this
  combination usually causes data unit indices to exceed 32 bits, and
  thus fscrypt_supported_policy() correctly disallows it.  The users who
  potentially need this combination are using f2fs.  To support it, f2fs
  would need to provide an option to slightly reduce its max file size.

- Supporting sub-block data units in combination with
  FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_32.  This has the same problem
  described above, but also it will need special code to make DUN
  wraparound still happen on a FS block boundary.

- Supporting use case (2) mentioned above.  The encrypted direct I/O
  code will need to stop requiring and assuming FS block alignment.
  This won't be hard, but it belongs in a separate patch.

- Supporting this feature on filesystems other than ext4 and f2fs.
  (Filesystems declare support for it via their fscrypt_operations.)
  On UBIFS, sub-block data units don't make sense because UBIFS encrypts
  variable-length blocks as a result of compression.  CephFS could
  support it, but a bit more work would be needed to make the
  fscrypt_*_block_inplace functions play nicely with sub-block data
  units.  I don't think there's a use case for this on CephFS anyway.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925055451.59499-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

1 files changed, 86 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
index a624e92f2687..28700fb41a00 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
@@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ DIRECT_KEY policies
 
 The Adiantum encryption mode (see `Encryption modes and usage`_) is
 suitable for both contents and filenames encryption, and it accepts
-long IVs --- long enough to hold both an 8-byte logical block number
-and a 16-byte per-file nonce.  Also, the overhead of each Adiantum key
-is greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key.
+long IVs --- long enough to hold both an 8-byte data unit index and a
+16-byte per-file nonce.  Also, the overhead of each Adiantum key is
+greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key.
 
 Therefore, to improve performance and save memory, for Adiantum a
 "direct key" configuration is supported.  When the user has enabled
@@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies
 
 IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies work like IV_INO_LBLK_64, except that for
 IV_INO_LBLK_32, the inode number is hashed with SipHash-2-4 (where the
-SipHash key is derived from the master key) and added to the file
-logical block number mod 2^32 to produce a 32-bit IV.
+SipHash key is derived from the master key) and added to the file data
+unit index mod 2^32 to produce a 32-bit IV.
 
 This format is optimized for use with inline encryption hardware
 compliant with the eMMC v5.2 standard, which supports only 32 IV bits
@@ -451,31 +451,62 @@ acceleration is recommended:
 Contents encryption
 -------------------
 
-For file contents, each filesystem block is encrypted independently.
-Starting from Linux kernel 5.5, encryption of filesystems with block
-size less than system's page size is supported.
-
-Each block's IV is set to the logical block number within the file as
-a little endian number, except that:
-
-- With CBC mode encryption, ESSIV is also used.  Specifically, each IV
-  is encrypted with AES-256 where the AES-256 key is the SHA-256 hash
-  of the file's data encryption key.
-
-- With `DIRECT_KEY policies`_, the file's nonce is appended to the IV.
-  Currently this is only allowed with the Adiantum encryption mode.
-
-- With `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_, the logical block number is limited
-  to 32 bits and is placed in bits 0-31 of the IV.  The inode number
-  (which is also limited to 32 bits) is placed in bits 32-63.
-
-- With `IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies`_, the logical block number is limited
-  to 32 bits and is placed in bits 0-31 of the IV.  The inode number
-  is then hashed and added mod 2^32.
-
-Note that because file logical block numbers are included in the IVs,
-filesystems must enforce that blocks are never shifted around within
-encrypted files, e.g. via "collapse range" or "insert range".
+For contents encryption, each file's contents is divided into "data
+units".  Each data unit is encrypted independently.  The IV for each
+data unit incorporates the zero-based index of the data unit within
+the file.  This ensures that each data unit within a file is encrypted
+differently, which is essential to prevent leaking information.
+
+Note: the encryption depending on the offset into the file means that
+operations like "collapse range" and "insert range" that rearrange the
+extent mapping of files are not supported on encrypted files.
+
+There are two cases for the sizes of the data units:
+
+* Fixed-size data units.  This is how all filesystems other than UBIFS
+  work.  A file's data units are all the same size; the last data unit
+  is zero-padded if needed.  By default, the data unit size is equal
+  to the filesystem block size.  On some filesystems, users can select
+  a sub-block data unit size via the ``log2_data_unit_size`` field of
+  the encryption policy; see `FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY`_.
+
+* Variable-size data units.  This is what UBIFS does.  Each "UBIFS
+  data node" is treated as a crypto data unit.  Each contains variable
+  length, possibly compressed data, zero-padded to the next 16-byte
+  boundary.  Users cannot select a sub-block data unit size on UBIFS.
+
+In the case of compression + encryption, the compressed data is
+encrypted.  UBIFS compression works as described above.  f2fs
+compression works a bit differently; it compresses a number of
+filesystem blocks into a smaller number of filesystem blocks.
+Therefore a f2fs-compressed file still uses fixed-size data units, and
+it is encrypted in a similar way to a file containing holes.
+
+As mentioned in `Key hierarchy`_, the default encryption setting uses
+per-file keys.  In this case, the IV for each data unit is simply the
+index of the data unit in the file.  However, users can select an
+encryption setting that does not use per-file keys.  For these, some
+kind of file identifier is incorporated into the IVs as follows:
+
+- With `DIRECT_KEY policies`_, the data unit index is placed in bits
+  0-63 of the IV, and the file's nonce is placed in bits 64-191.
+
+- With `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_, the data unit index is placed in
+  bits 0-31 of the IV, and the file's inode number is placed in bits
+  32-63.  This setting is only allowed when data unit indices and
+  inode numbers fit in 32 bits.
+
+- With `IV_INO_LBLK_32 policies`_, the file's inode number is hashed
+  and added to the data unit index.  The resulting value is truncated
+  to 32 bits and placed in bits 0-31 of the IV.  This setting is only
+  allowed when data unit indices and inode numbers fit in 32 bits.
+
+The byte order of the IV is always little endian.
+
+If the user selects FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CBC for the contents mode, an
+ESSIV layer is automatically included.  In this case, before the IV is
+passed to AES-128-CBC, it is encrypted with AES-256 where the AES-256
+key is the SHA-256 hash of the file's contents encryption key.
 
 Filenames encryption
 --------------------
@@ -544,7 +575,8 @@ follows::
             __u8 contents_encryption_mode;
             __u8 filenames_encryption_mode;
             __u8 flags;
-            __u8 __reserved[4];
+            __u8 log2_data_unit_size;
+            __u8 __reserved[3];
             __u8 master_key_identifier[FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE];
     };
 
@@ -586,6 +618,29 @@ This structure must be initialized as follows:
   The DIRECT_KEY, IV_INO_LBLK_64, and IV_INO_LBLK_32 flags are
   mutually exclusive.
 
+- ``log2_data_unit_size`` is the log2 of the data unit size in bytes,
+  or 0 to select the default data unit size.  The data unit size is
+  the granularity of file contents encryption.  For example, setting
+  ``log2_data_unit_size`` to 12 causes file contents be passed to the
+  underlying encryption algorithm (such as AES-256-XTS) in 4096-byte
+  data units, each with its own IV.
+
+  Not all filesystems support setting ``log2_data_unit_size``.  ext4
+  and f2fs support it since Linux v6.7.  On filesystems that support
+  it, the supported nonzero values are 9 through the log2 of the
+  filesystem block size, inclusively.  The default value of 0 selects
+  the filesystem block size.
+
+  The main use case for ``log2_data_unit_size`` is for selecting a
+  data unit size smaller than the filesystem block size for
+  compatibility with inline encryption hardware that only supports
+  smaller data unit sizes.  ``/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto/`` may be
+  useful for checking which data unit sizes are supported by a
+  particular system's inline encryption hardware.
+
+  Leave this field zeroed unless you are certain you need it.  Using
+  an unnecessarily small data unit size reduces performance.
+
 - For v2 encryption policies, ``__reserved`` must be zeroed.
 
 - For v1 encryption policies, ``master_key_descriptor`` specifies how