crypto: af_alg - Support symmetric encryption via keyring keys

We want to leverage keyring to store sensitive keys, and then use those
keys for symmetric encryption via the crypto API. Among the key types we
wish to support are: user, logon, encrypted, and trusted.

User key types are already able to have their data copied to user space,
but logon does not support this. Further, trusted and encrypted keys will
return their encrypted data back to user space on read, which does not
make them ideal for symmetric encryption.

To support symmetric encryption for these key types, add a new
ALG_SET_KEY_BY_KEY_SERIAL setsockopt() option to the crypto API. This
allows users to pass a key_serial_t to the crypto API to perform
symmetric encryption. The behavior is the same as ALG_SET_KEY, but
the crypto key data is copied in kernel space from a keyring key,
which allows for the support of logon, encrypted, and trusted key types.

Keyring keys must have the KEY_(POS|USR|GRP|OTH)_SEARCH permission set
to leverage this feature. This follows the asymmetric_key type where key
lookup calls eventually lead to keyring_search_rcu() without the
KEYRING_SEARCH_NO_CHECK_PERM flag set.

Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst b/Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst
index b45dabbf69d6..f80f243e227e 100644
--- a/Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst
+++ b/Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ from the kernel crypto API. If the buffer is too small for the message
 digest, the flag MSG_TRUNC is set by the kernel.
 
 In order to set a message digest key, the calling application must use
-the setsockopt() option of ALG_SET_KEY. If the key is not set the HMAC
-operation is performed without the initial HMAC state change caused by
-the key.
+the setsockopt() option of ALG_SET_KEY or ALG_SET_KEY_BY_KEY_SERIAL. If the
+key is not set the HMAC operation is performed without the initial HMAC state
+change caused by the key.
 
 Symmetric Cipher API
 --------------------
@@ -382,6 +382,15 @@ mentioned optname:
 
    -  the RNG cipher type to provide the seed
 
+- ALG_SET_KEY_BY_KEY_SERIAL -- Setting the key via keyring key_serial_t.
+   This operation behaves the same as ALG_SET_KEY. The decrypted
+   data is copied from a keyring key, and uses that data as the
+   key for symmetric encryption.
+
+   The passed in key_serial_t must have the KEY_(POS|USR|GRP|OTH)_SEARCH
+   permission set, otherwise -EPERM is returned. Supports key types: user,
+   logon, encrypted, and trusted.
+
 -  ALG_SET_AEAD_AUTHSIZE -- Setting the authentication tag size for
    AEAD ciphers. For a encryption operation, the authentication tag of
    the given size will be generated. For a decryption operation, the