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Commit b5a7aef1 authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim
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fscrypto/f2fs: allow fs-specific key prefix for fs encryption



This patch allows fscrypto to handle a second key prefix given by filesystem.
The main reason is to provide backward compatibility, since previously f2fs
used "f2fs:" as a crypto prefix instead of "fscrypt:".
Later, ext4 should also provide key_prefix() to give "ext4:".

One concern decribed by Ted would be kinda double check overhead of prefixes.
In x86, for example, validate_user_key consumes 8 ms after boot-up, which turns
out derive_key_aes() consumed most of the time to load specific crypto module.
After such the cold miss, it shows almost zero latencies, which treats as a
negligible overhead.
Note that request_key() detects wrong prefix in prior to derive_key_aes() even.

Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
parent 09210c97
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