[PATCH v4 6/7] fscrypt: document inline encryption support

Satya Tangirala
2020-07-20T23:37:55Z

Update the fscrypt documentation file for inline encryption support.

Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
index f5d8b0303ddf..ec81598477fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
@@ -1204,6 +1204,18 @@ buffer. Some filesystems, such as UBIFS, already use temporary
buffers regardless of encryption. Other filesystems, such as ext4 and
F2FS, have to allocate bounce pages specially for encryption.

+Fscrypt is also able to use inline encryption hardware instead of the
+kernel crypto API for en/decryption of file contents. When possible,
+and if directed to do so (by specifying the 'inlinecrypt' mount option
+for an ext4/F2FS filesystem), it adds encryption contexts to bios and
+uses blk-crypto to perform the en/decryption instead of making use of
+the above read/write path changes. Of course, even if directed to
+make use of inline encryption, fscrypt will only be able to do so if
+either hardware inline encryption support is available for the
+selected encryption algorithm or CONFIG_BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK
+is selected. If neither is the case, fscrypt will fall back to using
+the above mentioned read/write path changes for en/decryption.
+
Filename hashing and encoding
-----------------------------

@@ -1250,7 +1262,9 @@ 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
+group on the relevant filesystem(s). One can also run the tests
+with the 'inlinecrypt' mount option to test the implementation for
+inline encryption support. For example, to test ext4 and
f2fs encryption using `kvm-xfstests
<https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md>`_::

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