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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 | ======================================= How to use dm-crypt and swsusp together ======================================= Author: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> Some prerequisites: You know how dm-crypt works. If not, visit the following web page: http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ You have read Documentation/power/swsusp.rst and understand it. You did read Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst and know how an initrd works. You know how to create or how to modify an initrd. Now your system is properly set up, your disk is encrypted except for the swap device(s) and the boot partition which may contain a mini system for crypto setup and/or rescue purposes. You may even have an initrd that does your current crypto setup already. At this point you want to encrypt your swap, too. Still you want to be able to suspend using swsusp. This, however, means that you have to be able to either enter a passphrase or that you read the key(s) from an external device like a pcmcia flash disk or an usb stick prior to resume. So you need an initrd, that sets up dm-crypt and then asks swsusp to resume from the encrypted swap device. The most important thing is that you set up dm-crypt in such a way that the swap device you suspend to/resume from has always the same major/minor within the initrd as well as within your running system. The easiest way to achieve this is to always set up this swap device first with dmsetup, so that it will always look like the following:: brw------- 1 root root 254, 0 Jul 28 13:37 /dev/mapper/swap0 Now set up your kernel to use /dev/mapper/swap0 as the default resume partition, so your kernel .config contains:: CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/mapper/swap0" Prepare your boot loader to use the initrd you will create or modify. For lilo the simplest setup looks like the following lines:: image=/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd.gz label=linux append="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw" Finally you need to create or modify your initrd. Lets assume you create an initrd that reads the required dm-crypt setup from a pcmcia flash disk card. The card is formatted with an ext2 fs which resides on /dev/hde1 when the card is inserted. The card contains at least the encrypted swap setup in a file named "swapkey". /etc/fstab of your initrd contains something like the following:: /dev/hda1 /mnt ext3 ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/hda1 contains an unencrypted mini system that sets up all of your crypto devices, again by reading the setup from the pcmcia flash disk. What follows now is a /linuxrc for your initrd that allows you to resume from encrypted swap and that continues boot with your mini system on /dev/hda1 if resume does not happen:: #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin mount /proc mount /sys mapped=0 noresume=`grep -c noresume /proc/cmdline` if [ "$*" != "" ] then noresume=1 fi dmesg -n 1 /sbin/cardmgr -q for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 do if [ -f /proc/ide/hde/media ] then usleep 500000 mount -t ext2 -o ro /dev/hde1 /mnt if [ -f /mnt/swapkey ] then dmsetup create swap0 /mnt/swapkey > /dev/null 2>&1 && mapped=1 fi umount /mnt break fi usleep 500000 done killproc /sbin/cardmgr dmesg -n 6 if [ $mapped = 1 ] then if [ $noresume != 0 ] then mkswap /dev/mapper/swap0 > /dev/null 2>&1 fi echo 254:0 > /sys/power/resume dmsetup remove swap0 fi umount /sys mount /mnt umount /proc cd /mnt pivot_root . mnt mount /proc umount -l /mnt umount /proc exec chroot . /sbin/init $* < dev/console > dev/console 2>&1 Please don't mind the weird loop above, busybox's msh doesn't know the let statement. Now, what is happening in the script? First we have to decide if we want to try to resume, or not. We will not resume if booting with "noresume" or any parameters for init like "single" or "emergency" as boot parameters. Then we need to set up dmcrypt with the setup data from the pcmcia flash disk. If this succeeds we need to reset the swap device if we don't want to resume. The line "echo 254:0 > /sys/power/resume" then attempts to resume from the first device mapper device. Note that it is important to set the device in /sys/power/resume, regardless if resuming or not, otherwise later suspend will fail. If resume starts, script execution terminates here. Otherwise we just remove the encrypted swap device and leave it to the mini system on /dev/hda1 to set the whole crypto up (it is up to you to modify this to your taste). What then follows is the well known process to change the root file system and continue booting from there. I prefer to unmount the initrd prior to continue booting but it is up to you to modify this. |