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dm crypt: optionally support discard requests

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Add optional parameter field to dmcrypt table and support
"allow_discards" option.

Discard requests bypass crypt queue processing. Bio is simple remapped
to underlying device.

Note that discard will be never enabled by default because of security
consequences.  It is up to the administrator to enable it for encrypted
devices.

(Note that userspace cryptsetup does not understand new optional
parameters yet.  Support for this will come later.  Until then, you
should use 'dmsetup' to enable and disable this.)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Milan Broz
2011-08-02 12:32:08 +01:00
committed by Alasdair G Kergon
parent 327372797c
commit 772ae5f54d
2 changed files with 65 additions and 5 deletions
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Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt
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@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ dm-crypt
Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices
using the kernel crypto API.
Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset>
Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \
<offset> [<#opt_params> <opt_params>]
<cipher>
Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode.
@@ -37,6 +38,24 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset>
<offset>
Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins.
<#opt_params>
Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters,
the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero.
Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments.
Example of optional parameters section:
1 allow_discards
allow_discards
Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the crypt device.
The default is to ignore discard requests.
WARNING: Assess the specific security risks carefully before enabling this
option. For example, allowing discards on encrypted devices may lead to
the leak of information about the ciphertext device (filesystem type,
used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the
device later.
Example scripts
===============
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk