start only one worker thread. For software crypto it will start by default
N worker threads where N is the number of available CPUs.
This is not optimal if hardware crypto is AES-NI, which uses CPU for AES
calculations.
Change that to always start one worker thread for every available CPU.
Number of worker threads per GELI provider can be easly reduced with
kern.geom.eli.threads sysctl/tunable and even for software crypto it
should be reduced when using more providers.
While here, when number of threads exceeds number of CPUs avilable don't
reduce this number, assume the user knows what he is doing.
Reported by: Yuri Karaban <dev@dev97.com>
MFC after: 3 days
with older FreeBSD versions:
- Add -V option to 'geli init' to specify version number. If no -V is given
the most recent version is used.
- If -V is given don't allow to use features not supported by this version.
- Print version in 'geli list' output.
- Update manual page and add table describing which GELI version is
supported by which FreeBSD version, so one can use it when preparing GELI
device for older FreeBSD version.
Inspired by: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
MFC after: 3 days
was not updated to pass CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT flag to opencrypto. This resulted in
always using first key.
We need to support providers created with this bug, so set special
G_ELI_FLAG_FIRST_KEY flag for GELI provider in integrity mode with version
smaller than 6 and pass the CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT flag to opencrypto only if
G_ELI_FLAG_FIRST_KEY doesn't exist.
Reported by: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>
MFC after: 1 week
create reasonably large cache for the keys that is filled when
needed. The previous version was problematic for very large providers
(hundreds of terabytes or serval petabytes). Every terabyte of data
needs around 256kB for keys. Make the default cache limit big enough
to fit all the keys needed for 4TB providers, which will eat at most
1MB of memory.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Before this change if you wanted to suspend your laptop and be sure that your
encryption keys are safe, you had to stop all processes that use file system
stored on encrypted device, unmount the file system and detach geli provider.
This isn't very handy. If you are a lucky user of a laptop where suspend/resume
actually works with FreeBSD (I'm not!) you most likely want to suspend your
laptop, because you don't want to start everything over again when you turn
your laptop back on.
And this is where geli suspend/resume steps in. When you execute:
# geli suspend -a
geli will wait for all in-flight I/O requests, suspend new I/O requests, remove
all geli sensitive data from the kernel memory (like encryption keys) and will
wait for either 'geli resume' or 'geli detach'.
Now with no keys in memory you can suspend your laptop without stopping any
processes or unmounting any file systems.
When you resume your laptop you have to resume geli devices using 'geli resume'
command. You need to provide your passphrase, etc. again so the keys can be
restored and suspended I/O requests released.
Of course you need to remember that 'geli suspend' won't clear file system
cache and other places where data from your geli-encrypted file system might be
present. But to get rid of those stopping processes and unmounting file system
won't help either - you have to turn your laptop off. Be warned.
Also note, that suspending geli device which contains file system with geli
utility (or anything used by 'geli resume') is not very good idea, as you won't
be able to resume it - when you execute geli(8), the kernel will try to read it
and this read I/O request will be suspended.
but because of a bug it was a no-op, so we were still using offsets in native
byte order for the host. Do it properly this time, bump version to 4 and set
the G_ELI_FLAG_NATIVE_BYTE_ORDER flag when version is under 4.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This way one will be able to use provider encrypted on eg. i386 on
eg. sparc64. This doesn't really buy us much today, because UFS isn't
endian agnostic.
We retain backward compatibility by setting G_ELI_FLAG_NATIVE_BYTE_ORDER
flag on devices with version number less than 2 and not converting the
offset.
case panic on sparc64.
The problem is in MD5(9) implementation. The Encode() function takes
'unsigned char *output' as its first argument, which is then assigned to
'u_int32_t *op'. If the 'output' argument is not 4 byte aligned (and in
geli(8) case it is not), sparc64 machine will panic.
I don't know how to fix MD5(9) in a clean way, so I'm implementing a
work-around in geli(8).
Reported by: brueffer
MFC after: 3 days
sizeof(struct g_eli_metadata) will return the exact number of bytes needed
for storing it on the disk.
Without this change GELI was unusable on amd64 (and probably other 64-bit
archs), because sizeof(struct g_eli_metadata) was greater than 512 bytes
and geli(8) was failing on assertion.
Reported by: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com>
MFC after: 3 days
