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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: document testing with xfstests
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:16:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190620181658.225792-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Document how to test ext4, f2fs, and ubifs encryption with xfstests.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
index 87d4e266ffc86d..82efa41b0e6c02 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
@@ -649,3 +649,42 @@ Note that the precise way that filenames are presented to userspace
 without the key is subject to change in the future.  It is only meant
 as a way to temporarily present valid filenames so that commands like
 ``rm -r`` work as expected on encrypted directories.
+
+Tests
+=====
+
+To test fscrypt, use xfstests, which is Linux's de facto standard
+filesystem test suite.  First, run all the tests in the "encrypt"
+group on the relevant filesystem(s).  For example, to test ext4 and
+f2fs encryption using `kvm-xfstests
+<https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md>`_::
+
+    kvm-xfstests -c ext4,f2fs -g encrypt
+
+UBIFS encryption can also be tested this way, but it should be done in
+a separate command, and it takes some time for kvm-xfstests to set up
+emulated UBI volumes::
+
+    kvm-xfstests -c ubifs -g encrypt
+
+No tests should fail.  However, tests that use non-default encryption
+modes (e.g. generic/549 and generic/550) will be skipped if the needed
+algorithms were not built into the kernel's crypto API.  Also, tests
+that access the raw block device (e.g. generic/399, generic/548,
+generic/549, generic/550) will be skipped on UBIFS.
+
+Besides running the "encrypt" group tests, for ext4 and f2fs it's also
+possible to run most xfstests with the "test_dummy_encryption" mount
+option.  This option causes all new files to be automatically
+encrypted with a dummy key, without having to make any API calls.
+This tests the encrypted I/O paths more thoroughly.  To do this with
+kvm-xfstests, use the "encrypt" filesystem configuration::
+
+    kvm-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto
+
+Because this runs many more tests than "-g encrypt" does, it takes
+much longer to run; so also consider using `gce-xfstests
+<https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/gce-xfstests.md>`_
+instead of kvm-xfstests::
+
+    gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt,f2fs/encrypt -g auto
-- 
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog

             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-20 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-20 18:16 Eric Biggers [this message]
2019-06-27 17:17 ` [PATCH] fscrypt: document testing with xfstests Theodore Ts'o
2019-06-27 17:37 ` Eric Biggers

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