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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2020-07-02 01:56:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2020-07-08 10:29:43 -0700 |
| commit | 4f74d15fe40833d4fb4f5ead7437aa73840596a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 355c94ea38587a4033682a744af0ea235eced858 /Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | |
| parent | 27aacd28ea3b891d1cdc7a9c726e2237f7d3701f (diff) | |
ext4: add inline encryption support
Wire up ext4 to support inline encryption via the helper functions which
fs/crypto/ now provides. This includes:
- Adding a mount option 'inlinecrypt' which enables inline encryption
on encrypted files where it can be used.
- Setting the bio_crypt_ctx on bios that will be submitted to an
inline-encrypted file.
Note: submit_bh_wbc() in fs/buffer.c also needed to be patched for
this part, since ext4 sometimes uses ll_rw_block() on file data.
- Not adding logically discontiguous data to bios that will be submitted
to an inline-encrypted file.
- Not doing filesystem-layer crypto on inline-encrypted files.
Co-developed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200702015607.1215430-5-satyat@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 9443fcef1876..2162d7909970 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -395,6 +395,13 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt. Note that this option is incompatible with data=journal. + inlinecrypt + When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted files using the + blk-crypto framework rather than filesystem-layer encryption. This + allows the use of inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is + unaffected. For more details, see + Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst. + Data Mode ========= There are 3 different data modes: |