dm crypt: reject key strings containing whitespace chars
Unfortunately key_string may theoretically contain whitespace even after it's processed by dm_split_args(). The reason for this is DM core supports escaping of almost all chars including any whitespace. If userspace passes a key to the kernel in format ":32:logon:my_prefix:my\ key" dm-crypt will look up key "my_prefix:my key" in kernel keyring service. So far everything's fine. Unfortunately if userspace later calls DM_TABLE_STATUS ioctl, it will not receive back expected ":32:logon:my_prefix:my\ key" but the unescaped version instead. Also userpace (most notably cryptsetup) is not ready to parse single target argument containing (even escaped) whitespace chars and any whitespace is simply taken as delimiter of another argument. This effect is mitigated by the fact libdevmapper curently performs double escaping of '\' char. Any user input in format "x\ x" is transformed into "x\\ x" before being passed to the kernel. Nonetheless dm-crypt may be used without libdevmapper. Therefore the near-term solution to this is to reject any key string containing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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