Re: Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto an encrypted volume with LUKS2 and a sector size of 4096

Ingo Franzki <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21.02.2019 14:02, Arno Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> LUKS should still be using 512 Byte sectors. Any mismatch
> there should just impact performance,
Yes, LUKS(1) uses 512 and it does not show the problem, but LUKS2 supports larger sector sizes and it causes the problem if used.
> 
> I suspect you have an offset problem and the sector-numbers
> (used as initialization for each secor's encryption) are 
> shifted, expecially if this happens in plain mode as well.
Quite possible. Therefore I suspect a problem in dm-crypt and/or LVM. 
> 
> Regards,
> Arno
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 13:03:51 CET, Ingo Franzki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we just encountered an error when using LVM's pvmove command to move the data from an un-encrypted LVM physical volume onto an encrypted volume. 
>> After the pvmove has completed, the file system on the logical volume that resides on the moved physical volumes is corrupted.
>>
>> It seems to be related to a sector size of 4096 used with LUKS2. Once I use the default sector size (512) then the problem does not happen.
>> It happens with LUKS2 and even plain mode, as soon as a sector size of 4096 is used. LUKS1 and the default sector size does not show the problem. 
>>
>> Not sure if this is a problem in dm-crypt or LVM, or a combination of both.
>>
>> Here is how to reproduce (note the error messages on the very last command): 
>>
>> # sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=loopbackfile1.img bs=500M count=1
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 2.32777 s, 225 MB/s
>>
>> # sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=loopbackfile2.img bs=500M count=1
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.89992 s, 276 MB/s
>>
>> # losetup -fP /root/loopbackfile1.img
>>
>> # losetup -fP /root/loopbackfile2.img
>>
>> # pvcreate /dev/loop0
>>   Physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created.
>>
>> # vgcreate LOOP_VG /dev/loop0
>>   Volume group "LOOP_VG" successfully created
>>
>> # lvcreate -L 300MB LOOP_VG -n LV /dev/loop0
>>   Logical volume "LV" created.
>>
>> # mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/LOOP_VG-LV
>> mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
>> Discarding device blocks: done
>> Creating filesystem with 307200 1k blocks and 76912 inodes
>> Filesystem UUID: 344289a3-e251-4d88-b03d-a71a4be2a8ec
>> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>>         8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185
>>
>> Allocating group tables: done
>> Writing inode tables: done
>> Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
>> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>>
>> # mount /dev/mapper/LOOP_VG-LV /mnt
>>
>> # cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 --sector-size 4096 /dev/loop1
>>
>> WARNING!
>> ========
>> This will overwrite data on /dev/loop1 irrevocably.
>>
>> Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
>> Enter passphrase for /dev/loop1: loop
>> Verify passphrase: loop
>>
>> # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop1 enc-loop
>> Enter passphrase for /dev/loop1: loop
>>
>> # pvcreate /dev/mapper/enc-loop
>>   Physical volume "/dev/mapper/enc-loop" successfully created.
>>
>> # vgextend LOOP_VG /dev/mapper/enc-loop
>>   Volume group "LOOP_VG" successfully extended
>>
>> # pvs
>>   PV                   VG      Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>>   /dev/loop0           LOOP_VG lvm2 a--  496.00m 196.00m
>>   /dev/mapper/enc-loop LOOP_VG lvm2 a--  492.00m 492.00m
>>
>> # pvmove /dev/loop0 /dev/mapper/enc-loop
>>   /dev/loop0: Moved: 30.67%
>>   /dev/loop0: Moved: 100.00%
>>
>> # pvs
>>   /dev/LOOP_VG/LV: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Invalid argument
>>   /dev/LOOP_VG/LV: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 314507264: Invalid argument
>>   /dev/LOOP_VG/LV: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 314564608: Invalid argument
>>   /dev/LOOP_VG/LV: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 4096: Invalid argument
>>   PV                   VG      Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>>   /dev/loop0           LOOP_VG lvm2 a--  496.00m 496.00m
>>   /dev/mapper/enc-loop LOOP_VG lvm2 a--  492.00m 192.00m
>>
>> In case the filesystem of the logical volume is not mounted at the time of pvmove, it gets corrupted anyway, but you only see errors when trying to mount it.
>>
>> -- 
>> Ingo Franzki
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