Re: QAPI schema for desired state of LUKS keyslots (was: [PATCH 02/13] qcrypto-luks: implement encryption key management)

[Max Reitz]

On 15.02.20 15:51, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Review of this patch led to a lengthy QAPI schema design discussion.
> Let me try to condense it into a concrete proposal.
> 
> This is about the QAPI schema, and therefore about QMP.  The
> human-friendly interface is out of scope.  Not because it's not
> important (it clearly is!), only because we need to *focus* to have a
> chance at success.
> 
> I'm going to include a few design options.  I'll mark them "Option:".
> 
> The proposed "amend" interface takes a specification of desired state,
> and figures out how to get from here to there by itself.  LUKS keyslots
> are one part of desired state.
> 
> We commonly have eight LUKS keyslots.  Each keyslot is either active or
> inactive.  An active keyslot holds a secret.
> 
> Goal: a QAPI type for specifying desired state of LUKS keyslots.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
>     { 'enum': 'LUKSKeyslotState',
>       'data': [ 'active', 'inactive' ] }
> 
>     { 'struct': 'LUKSKeyslotActive',
>       'data': { 'secret': 'str',
>                 '*iter-time': 'int } }
> 
>     { 'struct': 'LUKSKeyslotInactive',
>       'data': { '*old-secret': 'str' } }
> 
>     { 'union': 'LUKSKeyslotAmend',
>       'base': { '*keyslot': 'int',
>                 'state': 'LUKSKeyslotState' }
>       'discriminator': 'state',
>       'data': { 'active': 'LUKSKeyslotActive',
>                 'inactive': 'LUKSKeyslotInactive' } }

Looks OK to me.  The only thing is that @old-secret kind of works as an
address, just like @keyslot, so it might also make sense to me to put
@keyslot/@old-secret into a union in the base structure.

(One of the problems that come to mind with that approach is that not
specifying either of @old-secret or @keyslot has different meanings for
activating/inactivating a keyslot: When activating it, it means “The
first unused one”; when deactivating it, it’s just an error because it
doesn’t really mean anything.)

*shrug*

Max

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