[Openstack-security] [Bug 1372375] Re: Attaching LVM encrypted volumes (with LUKS) could cause data loss if LUKS headers get corrupted
Joel Coffman
1372375 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Sep 30 17:02:40 UTC 2014
That approach seems good in my opinion -- no real downsides apart from
the additional metadata.
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Title:
Attaching LVM encrypted volumes (with LUKS) could cause data loss if
LUKS headers get corrupted
Status in Cinder:
New
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
Incomplete
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
I have doubts about the flow of the volume attaching operation, as
defined in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-
packages/nova/volume/encryptors/luks.py.
If the device is not recognized to be a valid luks device, the script is luks formatting it! So if for some reason the luks header get corrupted, it erases the whole data.
To manage corrupted headers there are the
cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup
and
cryptsetup luksHeaderRestore
commands that respectively do the backup and the restore of the
headers.
I think that the process has to be reviewed, and the luksFormat
operation has to be performed during the volume creation.
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