crypto: Support LUKS volume with detached header

By enhancing the LUKS driver, it is possible to implement
the LUKS volume with a detached header.

Normally a LUKS volume has a layout:
  disk:  | header | key material | disk payload data |

With a detached LUKS header, you need 2 disks so getting:
  disk1:  | header | key material |
  disk2:  | disk payload data |

There are a variety of benefits to doing this:
 * Secrecy - the disk2 cannot be identified as containing LUKS
             volume since there's no header
 * Control - if access to the disk1 is restricted, then even
             if someone has access to disk2 they can't unlock
             it. Might be useful if you have disks on NFS but
             want to restrict which host can launch a VM
             instance from it, by dynamically providing access
             to the header to a designated host
 * Flexibility - your application data volume may be a given
                 size and it is inconvenient to resize it to
                 add encryption.You can store the LUKS header
                 separately and use the existing storage
                 volume for payload
 * Recovery - corruption of a bit in the header may make the
              entire payload inaccessible. It might be
              convenient to take backups of the header. If
              your primary disk header becomes corrupt, you
              can unlock the data still by pointing to the
              backup detached header

Take the raw-format image as an example to introduce the usage
of the LUKS volume with a detached header:

1. prepare detached LUKS header images
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test-header.img bs=1M count=32
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test-payload.img bs=1M count=1000
$ cryptsetup luksFormat --header test-header.img test-payload.img
> --force-password --type luks1

2. block-add a protocol blockdev node of payload image
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"blockdev-add",
> "arguments":{"node-name":"libvirt-1-storage", "driver":"file",
> "filename":"test-payload.img"}}'

3. block-add a protocol blockdev node of LUKS header as above.
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"blockdev-add",
> "arguments":{"node-name":"libvirt-2-storage", "driver":"file",
> "filename": "test-header.img" }}'

4. object-add the secret for decrypting the cipher stored in
   LUKS header above
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"object-add",
> "arguments":{"qom-type":"secret", "id":
> "libvirt-2-storage-secret0", "data":"abc123"}}'

5. block-add the raw-drived blockdev format node
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"blockdev-add",
> "arguments":{"node-name":"libvirt-1-format", "driver":"raw",
> "file":"libvirt-1-storage"}}'

6. block-add the luks-drived blockdev to link the raw disk
   with the LUKS header by specifying the field "header"
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"blockdev-add",
> "arguments":{"node-name":"libvirt-2-format", "driver":"luks",
> "file":"libvirt-1-format", "header":"libvirt-2-storage",
> "key-secret":"libvirt-2-format-secret0"}}'

7. hot-plug the virtio-blk device finally
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute":"device_add",
> "arguments": {"num-queues":"1", "driver":"virtio-blk-pci",
> "drive": "libvirt-2-format", "id":"virtio-disk2"}}'

Starting a VM with a LUKS volume with detached header is
somewhat similar to hot-plug in that both maintaining the
same json command while the starting VM changes the
"blockdev-add/device_add" parameters to "blockdev/device".

Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/crypto/block.h b/include/crypto/block.h
index 4f63a37872..d0d97f5d12 100644
--- a/include/crypto/block.h
+++ b/include/crypto/block.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ bool qcrypto_block_has_format(QCryptoBlockFormat format,
 
 typedef enum {
     QCRYPTO_BLOCK_OPEN_NO_IO = (1 << 0),
+    QCRYPTO_BLOCK_OPEN_DETACHED = (1 << 1),
 } QCryptoBlockOpenFlags;
 
 /**
@@ -95,6 +96,10 @@ typedef enum {
  * metadata such as the payload offset. There will be
  * no cipher or ivgen objects available.
  *
+ * If @flags contains QCRYPTO_BLOCK_OPEN_DETACHED then
+ * the open process will be optimized to skip the LUKS
+ * payload overlap check.
+ *
  * If any part of initializing the encryption context
  * fails an error will be returned. This could be due
  * to the volume being in the wrong format, a cipher