Re: How to enable CONFIG_EXT4_ENCRYPTION

[Dai Xiang <xiangx.dai@intel.com>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 12:31:38PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 09:49:42AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 05:51:26PM +0800, Dai Xiang wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 11:25:02AM +0800, Dai Xiang wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > I use xfstests with ext4 fs to test, and i found a skip:
> > > > 
> > > > ext4/024         [not run] kernel does not support ext4 encryption
> > 
> > Yeah, the message printed is misleading, and should be fixed.
> > Checking to see whether the kernel supports encryption can be done by
> > checking for the existence of the file:
> > 
> > /sys/fs/ext4/features/encryption
> > 
> > > i print the cmd:
> > > /usr/sbin/xfs_io -i -c set_encpolicy /fs/scratch/tmpdir
> > > /fs/scratch/tmpdir: failed to set encryption policy: Inappropriate
> > > ioctl for device <===
> > > 
> > > Seems do not related to kconfig?
> > 
> > Yes, the issue is that you need to create the file system (or set via
> > tune2fs) the feature flag "encrypt".  To best test the read/write
> > paths, you should set the mount option test_dummy_encryption.  The
> > kvm-xfstests and gce-xfstests framework do all of this automatically.
> > From xfstests-bld/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/cfg/fs/ext4/encrypt:
> > 
> > SIZE=small
> > export EXT_MKFS_OPTIONS="-O encrypt"
> > export EXT_MOUNT_OPTIONS="test_dummy_encryption"
> > REQUIRE_FEATURE=encryption
> > TESTNAME="Ext4 encryption"
> > 
> > There are a number tests that are known to fail; primarily having to
> > do with quota support, which doesn't play well with
> > test_dummy_encryption (that's more of a test problem than anything
> > else).  See the encrypt.exclude file in that directory for more
> > details.
> > 
> 
> Actually, this is one of the tests in the "encrypt" group, which format the
> scratch device with "-O encrypt".  So I believe the printed message is correct.
> Are you 100% sure that CONFIG_EXT4_ENCRYPTION is enabled in your kernel config
> and that you are running the correct kernel?

I use v4.13-rc3 kernerl, and i find this info refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Using_file-based_encryption:

Ext4 forbids encrypting the root (/) directory and will produce an error on kernel 4.13 and later

Does it impact?

> 
> Eric