Re: OPAL setup for a new drive without sedutil initial setup

Hi,

I think I have found it.

It appears to be related to https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/issues/291

Following the recommendation, I have performed the PSID revert. This did not erase any data but the command has completed successfully.

Then I attempted to do cryptsetup again. That still did not work, although the message was different that time - "Incorrect OPAL Admin key".  Again, I have entered the OPAL Admin password I wanted to be set.

Then I have realized that I did power down the machine  between DriveAliance RESCUE image and Arch Linux installer. So I have  downloaded the sedutil-cli official  binary and did the same PSID revert again. Then I ran cryptsetup again (cryptsetup --hw-opal-only --type luks2 luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p3). That command did something for a couple of seconds and then failed with "Cannot setup OPAL segment." error message.
I assumed this error has left the drive in  semi-configured state so I did PSID revert one more time. This time the drive  did get erased - which mean cryptsetup has at least configured the Admin1 password.

I have  recreated my partitions and now performed initialsetup with sedutil. That did work correctly, no errors. Then I retried cryptsetup, now using the actual Admin1 password already set. This command has failed again with the same "Cannot setup OPAL segment" error message.
If I list the locking ranges with sedutil after this failure, it shows 9  (0-8)  LRs, none of them is configured. It is clear that it  fails somewhere in opal_setup_ranges() function.

Just out of curiosity, I have attempted to set up the locking range manually with sedutil. In my case the start is 786688,  the len is 487591936 sectors (sectors are  4k physica/logical). That worked. And I could see LR1 set up correctly. And I was able to lock it.

What I am trying to do is to enable encryption for LVM partition. Just to have EFI and boot partitions unencrypted and everything else encrypted and managed via LVM.
Interestingly enough, when I tried to "eraseLockingRange" with sedutil-cli, I have got the following error: "eraseLockingRange is not implemented. It is not part of the Opal SSC."

cryptsetup debug output seems to suggest that it tries to erase the LR 3 (why 3?? I have only one used + 0 is for entire disk).
----------- debug output -------------------

# cryptsetup 2.7.0 processing "cryptsetup --hw-opal-only --debug luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p3"
# Verifying parameters for command luksFormat.
# Running command luksFormat.
# Installing SIGINT/SIGTERM handler.
# Unblocking interruption on signal.
# Allocating context for crypt device /dev/nvme0n1p3.
# Trying to open and read device /dev/nvme0n1p3 with direct-io.
# Initialising device-mapper backend library.
# Blkid check (filter none).

WARNING!
========
This will overwrite data on /dev/nvme0n1p3 irrevocably.

Are you sure? (Type 'yes' in capital letters): # Interactive passphrase entry requested.
# Interactive passphrase entry requested.
# Crypto backend (OpenSSL 3.2.1 30 Jan 2024 [default][legacy][threads][argon2]) initialized in cryptsetup library version 2.7.0.
# Detected kernel Linux 6.7.6-arch1-2 x86_64.
# PBKDF argon2id, time_ms 2000 (iterations 0), max_memory_kb 1048576, parallel_threads 4.
# Formatting device /dev/nvme0n1p3 as type LUKS2 with OPAL HW encryption.
# OPAL GET_STATUS: flags:119
# Reusing open ro fd on device /dev/nvme0n1p3
# OPAL GET_GEOMETRY: align:1, lb_size:4096, gran:8, lowest_lba:0
# OPAL geometry: alignment: 'y', logical block size: 4096, alignment granularity: 8, lowest aligned LBA: 0
# OPAL alignment (4096/8), offset = 0. Required alignment is 1048576.
# Formatting LUKS2 with JSON metadata area 12288 bytes and keyslots area 16744448 bytes.
# Creating new digest 0 (pbkdf2).
# Setting PBKDF2 type key digest 0.
# Running pbkdf2(sha256) benchmark.
# PBKDF benchmark: memory cost = 0, iterations = 4681142, threads = 0 (took 7 ms)
# PBKDF benchmark: memory cost = 0, iterations = 5518821, threads = 0 (took 95 ms)
# PBKDF benchmark: memory cost = 0, iterations = 5433036, threads = 0 (took 772 ms)
# Benchmark returns pbkdf2(sha256) 5433036 iterations, 0 memory, 0 threads (for 256-bits key).
# Segment 0 assigned to digest 0.
# Adding LUKS2 OPAL requirement flag.
# LUKS2 requirements detected:
# opal - known
# LUKS2 requirements detected:
# opal - known
# LUKS2 requirements detected:
# opal - known
# Device size 1997176569856, offset 16777216.
# Wiping LUKS areas (0x000000 - 0x1000000) with zeroes.
# Wiping keyslots area (0x008000 - 0x1000000) with random data.
# Reusing open rw fd on device /dev/nvme0n1p3
# Reusing open ro fd on device /dev/nvme0n1p3
# Acquiring blocking write lock for resource OPAL_259:3.
# Opening lock resource file /run/cryptsetup/LN_OPAL_259:3
# Verifying lock handle for OPAL_259:3.
# WRITE lock for resource OPAL_259:3 taken.
# Reusing open ro fd on device /dev/nvme0n1p3
# Reusing open ro fd on device /dev/nvme0n1p3
# OPAL GET_STATUS: flags:119
# OPAL ERASE_LR: sum:0, who:0, lr:3
# OPAL ERASE_LR failed: not authorized
# Failed to reset (erase) OPAL locking range 3 on device '/dev/nvme0n1p3': not authorized
# OPAL SECURE_ERASE_LR: sum:0, who:0, lr:3
# OPAL SECURE_ERASE_LR failed: not authorized
# Failed to reset (secure erase) OPAL locking range 3 on device '/dev/nvme0n1p3': not authorized
# Unlocking WRITE lock for resource OPAL_259:3.
# Releasing crypt device /dev/nvme0n1p3 context.
# Releasing device-mapper backend.
# Closing read only fd for /dev/nvme0n1p3.
# Closing read write fd for /dev/nvme0n1p3.
Command failed with code -1 (wrong or missing parameters).

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Nikolai Grigoriev



Mar 18, 2024, 09:45 by [email protected]:

> On 18/03/2024 14:13, Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:
>
>> I tried to enter a password expecting it to become my new Admin1 password. That did not work. The message was something like "Invalid Admin1 password or permission denied". I ran it with "--hw-opal-only" against /dev/nvme0n1p3. The drive us brand-new Crucial T500 2Tb. Never used sedutil on it. I will try sedutil now to see what is going on and to set my password.
>>
> Well, sedutils will ask for the Admin1 pin as well before it can report anything interesting (e.g.: list existing/active locking ranges).
>
> Feel free to open an issue on upstream tracker: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/issues, just add --debug parameter in luksFormat command.
>
> Also the device model would be nice to further debug the issue provided it's this very device it does not work with (e.g. "nvme list" command output)
>
> Kind regards
> O.
>