fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC

fscrypt provides facilities to use different encryption algorithms which
are selectable by userspace when setting the encryption policy. Currently,
only AES-256-XTS for file contents and AES-256-CBC-CTS for file names are
implemented. This is a clear case of kernel offers the mechanism and
userspace selects a policy. Similar to what dm-crypt and ecryptfs have.

This patch adds support for using AES-128-CBC for file contents and
AES-128-CBC-CTS for file name encryption. To mitigate watermarking
attacks, IVs are generated using the ESSIV algorithm. While AES-CBC is
actually slightly less secure than AES-XTS from a security point of view,
there is more widespread hardware support. Using AES-CBC gives us the
acceptable performance while still providing a moderate level of security
for persistent storage.

Especially low-powered embedded devices with crypto accelerators such as
CAAM or CESA often only support AES-CBC. Since using AES-CBC over AES-XTS
is basically thought of a last resort, we use AES-128-CBC over AES-256-CBC
since it has less encryption rounds and yields noticeable better
performance starting from a file size of just a few kB.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter <dwalter@sigma-star.at>
[david@sigma-star.at: addressed review comments]
Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/crypto/crypto.c b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
index 6d6eca394d4d..c7835df7e7b8 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/dcache.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <crypto/aes.h>
 #include "fscrypt_private.h"
 
 static unsigned int num_prealloc_crypto_pages = 32;
@@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ int fscrypt_do_page_crypto(const struct inode *inode, fscrypt_direction_t rw,
 {
 	struct {
 		__le64 index;
-		u8 padding[FS_XTS_TWEAK_SIZE - sizeof(__le64)];
-	} xts_tweak;
+		u8 padding[FS_IV_SIZE - sizeof(__le64)];
+	} iv;
 	struct skcipher_request *req = NULL;
 	DECLARE_FS_COMPLETION_RESULT(ecr);
 	struct scatterlist dst, src;
@@ -158,6 +159,16 @@ int fscrypt_do_page_crypto(const struct inode *inode, fscrypt_direction_t rw,
 
 	BUG_ON(len == 0);
 
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(iv) != FS_IV_SIZE);
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(AES_BLOCK_SIZE != FS_IV_SIZE);
+	iv.index = cpu_to_le64(lblk_num);
+	memset(iv.padding, 0, sizeof(iv.padding));
+
+	if (ci->ci_essiv_tfm != NULL) {
+		crypto_cipher_encrypt_one(ci->ci_essiv_tfm, (u8 *)&iv,
+					  (u8 *)&iv);
+	}
+
 	req = skcipher_request_alloc(tfm, gfp_flags);
 	if (!req) {
 		printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR
@@ -170,15 +181,11 @@ int fscrypt_do_page_crypto(const struct inode *inode, fscrypt_direction_t rw,
 		req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG | CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP,
 		page_crypt_complete, &ecr);
 
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(xts_tweak) != FS_XTS_TWEAK_SIZE);
-	xts_tweak.index = cpu_to_le64(lblk_num);
-	memset(xts_tweak.padding, 0, sizeof(xts_tweak.padding));
-
 	sg_init_table(&dst, 1);
 	sg_set_page(&dst, dest_page, len, offs);
 	sg_init_table(&src, 1);
 	sg_set_page(&src, src_page, len, offs);
-	skcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &src, &dst, len, &xts_tweak);
+	skcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &src, &dst, len, &iv);
 	if (rw == FS_DECRYPT)
 		res = crypto_skcipher_decrypt(req);
 	else
@@ -477,6 +484,8 @@ static void __exit fscrypt_exit(void)
 		destroy_workqueue(fscrypt_read_workqueue);
 	kmem_cache_destroy(fscrypt_ctx_cachep);
 	kmem_cache_destroy(fscrypt_info_cachep);
+
+	fscrypt_essiv_cleanup();
 }
 module_exit(fscrypt_exit);