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211 lines
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The dm-integrity target emulates a block device that has additional
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per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity information.
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A general problem with storing integrity tags with every sector is that
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writing the sector and the integrity tag must be atomic - i.e. in case of
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crash, either both sector and integrity tag or none of them is written.
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To guarantee write atomicity, the dm-integrity target uses journal, it
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writes sector data and integrity tags into a journal, commits the journal
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and then copies the data and integrity tags to their respective location.
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The dm-integrity target can be used with the dm-crypt target - in this
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situation the dm-crypt target creates the integrity data and passes them
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to the dm-integrity target via bio_integrity_payload attached to the bio.
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In this mode, the dm-crypt and dm-integrity targets provide authenticated
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disk encryption - if the attacker modifies the encrypted device, an I/O
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error is returned instead of random data.
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The dm-integrity target can also be used as a standalone target, in this
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mode it calculates and verifies the integrity tag internally. In this
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mode, the dm-integrity target can be used to detect silent data
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corruption on the disk or in the I/O path.
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When loading the target for the first time, the kernel driver will format
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the device. But it will only format the device if the superblock contains
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zeroes. If the superblock is neither valid nor zeroed, the dm-integrity
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target can't be loaded.
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To use the target for the first time:
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1. overwrite the superblock with zeroes
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2. load the dm-integrity target with one-sector size, the kernel driver
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will format the device
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3. unload the dm-integrity target
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4. read the "provided_data_sectors" value from the superblock
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5. load the dm-integrity target with the the target size
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"provided_data_sectors"
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6. if you want to use dm-integrity with dm-crypt, load the dm-crypt target
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with the size "provided_data_sectors"
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Target arguments:
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1. the underlying block device
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2. the number of reserved sector at the beginning of the device - the
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dm-integrity won't read of write these sectors
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3. the size of the integrity tag (if "-" is used, the size is taken from
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the internal-hash algorithm)
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4. mode:
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D - direct writes (without journal) - in this mode, journaling is
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not used and data sectors and integrity tags are written
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separately. In case of crash, it is possible that the data
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and integrity tag doesn't match.
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J - journaled writes - data and integrity tags are written to the
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journal and atomicity is guaranteed. In case of crash,
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either both data and tag or none of them are written. The
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journaled mode degrades write throughput twice because the
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data have to be written twice.
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R - recovery mode - in this mode, journal is not replayed,
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checksums are not checked and writes to the device are not
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allowed. This mode is useful for data recovery if the
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device cannot be activated in any of the other standard
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modes.
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5. the number of additional arguments
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Additional arguments:
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journal_sectors:number
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The size of journal, this argument is used only if formatting the
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device. If the device is already formatted, the value from the
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superblock is used.
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interleave_sectors:number
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The number of interleaved sectors. This values is rounded down to
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a power of two. If the device is already formatted, the value from
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the superblock is used.
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buffer_sectors:number
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The number of sectors in one buffer. The value is rounded down to
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a power of two.
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The tag area is accessed using buffers, the buffer size is
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configurable. The large buffer size means that the I/O size will
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be larger, but there could be less I/Os issued.
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journal_watermark:number
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The journal watermark in percents. When the size of the journal
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exceeds this watermark, the thread that flushes the journal will
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be started.
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commit_time:number
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Commit time in milliseconds. When this time passes, the journal is
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written. The journal is also written immediatelly if the FLUSH
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request is received.
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internal_hash:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional)
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Use internal hash or crc.
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When this argument is used, the dm-integrity target won't accept
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integrity tags from the upper target, but it will automatically
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generate and verify the integrity tags.
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You can use a crc algorithm (such as crc32), then integrity target
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will protect the data against accidental corruption.
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You can also use a hmac algorithm (for example
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"hmac(sha256):0123456789abcdef"), in this mode it will provide
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cryptographic authentication of the data without encryption.
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When this argument is not used, the integrity tags are accepted
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from an upper layer target, such as dm-crypt. The upper layer
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target should check the validity of the integrity tags.
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recalculate
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Recalculate the integrity tags automatically. It is only valid
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when using internal hash.
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journal_crypt:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional)
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Encrypt the journal using given algorithm to make sure that the
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attacker can't read the journal. You can use a block cipher here
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(such as "cbc(aes)") or a stream cipher (for example "chacha20",
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"salsa20", "ctr(aes)" or "ecb(arc4)").
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The journal contains history of last writes to the block device,
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an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers
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that were written. From the sector numbers, the attacker can infer
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the size of files that were written. To protect against this
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situation, you can encrypt the journal.
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journal_mac:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional)
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Protect sector numbers in the journal from accidental or malicious
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modification. To protect against accidental modification, use a
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crc algorithm, to protect against malicious modification, use a
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hmac algorithm with a key.
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This option is not needed when using internal-hash because in this
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mode, the integrity of journal entries is checked when replaying
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the journal. Thus, modified sector number would be detected at
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this stage.
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block_size:number
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The size of a data block in bytes. The larger the block size the
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less overhead there is for per-block integrity metadata.
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Supported values are 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes. If not
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specified the default block size is 512 bytes.
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legacy_recalculate
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Allow recalculating of volumes with HMAC keys. This is disabled by
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default for security reasons - an attacker could modify the volume,
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set recalc_sector to zero, and the kernel would not detect the
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modification.
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The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time can
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be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive table and swap the
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tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments should not be changed
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when reloading the target because the layout of disk data depend on them
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and the reloaded target would be non-functional.
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The layout of the formatted block device:
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* reserved sectors (they are not used by this target, they can be used for
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storing LUKS metadata or for other purpose), the size of the reserved
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area is specified in the target arguments
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* superblock (4kiB)
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* magic string - identifies that the device was formatted
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* version
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* log2(interleave sectors)
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* integrity tag size
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* the number of journal sections
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* provided data sectors - the number of sectors that this target
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provides (i.e. the size of the device minus the size of all
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metadata and padding). The user of this target should not send
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bios that access data beyond the "provided data sectors" limit.
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* flags - a flag is set if journal_mac is used
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* journal
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The journal is divided into sections, each section contains:
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* metadata area (4kiB), it contains journal entries
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every journal entry contains:
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* logical sector (specifies where the data and tag should
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be written)
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* last 8 bytes of data
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* integrity tag (the size is specified in the superblock)
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every metadata sector ends with
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* mac (8-bytes), all the macs in 8 metadata sectors form a
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64-byte value. It is used to store hmac of sector
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numbers in the journal section, to protect against a
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possibility that the attacker tampers with sector
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numbers in the journal.
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* commit id
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* data area (the size is variable; it depends on how many journal
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entries fit into the metadata area)
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every sector in the data area contains:
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* data (504 bytes of data, the last 8 bytes are stored in
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the journal entry)
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* commit id
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To test if the whole journal section was written correctly, every
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512-byte sector of the journal ends with 8-byte commit id. If the
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commit id matches on all sectors in a journal section, then it is
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assumed that the section was written correctly. If the commit id
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doesn't match, the section was written partially and it should not
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be replayed.
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* one or more runs of interleaved tags and data. Each run contains:
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* tag area - it contains integrity tags. There is one tag for each
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sector in the data area
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* data area - it contains data sectors. The number of data sectors
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in one run must be a power of two. log2 of this value is stored
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in the superblock.
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