cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1840134

This is a changeset adding encryption to btrfs. It is not complete; it
does not support inline data or verity or authenticated encryption. It
is primarily intended as a proof that the fscrypt extent encryption
changeset it builds on work. 

As per the design doc refined in the fall of last year [1], btrfs
encryption has several steps: first, adding extent encryption to fscrypt
and then btrfs; second, adding authenticated encryption support to the
block layer, fscrypt, and then btrfs; and later adding potentially the
ability to change the key used by a directory (either for all data or
just newly written data) and/or allowing use of inline extents and
verity items in combination with encryption and/or enabling send/receive
of encrypted volumes. As such, this change is only the first step and is
unsafe.

This change does not pass a couple of encryption xfstests, because of
different properties of extent encryption. It hasn't been tested with
direct IO or RAID. Because currently extent encryption always uses inline
encryption (i.e. IO-block-only) for data encryption, it does not support
encryption of inline extents; similarly, since btrfs stores verity items
in the tree instead of in inline encryptable blocks on disk as other
filesystems do, btrfs cannot currently encrypt verity items. Finally,
this is insecure; the checksums are calculated on the unencrypted data
and stored unencrypted, which is a potential information leak. (This
will be addressed by authenticated encryption).

This changeset is built on two prior changesets to fscrypt: [2] and [3]
and should have no effect on unencrypted usage.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1janjxewlewtVPqctkWOjSa7OhCgB8Gdx7iDaCDQQNZA/edit?usp=sharing
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fscrypt/[email protected]/
[3]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fscrypt/[email protected]