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Generated grub.cfg does not support encrypted roots

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 21843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21843: Generated grub.cfg does not support encrypted roots
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:45:07 +0100

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:17:46AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> IIUC we don’t *have* to pass the UUID to ‘cryptomount’; we could also
>> pass the device name, in GRUB format
>
> Yes, but my idea was that the uuid is something we can determine
> at instantiation time. If the mapped device is /dev/sdd3, we can run
>    (system* "cryptsetup" "luksUUID" "/dev/sdd3")
> and obtain the uuid.

Hmm yeah, but we don’t even do that for regular partitions.

> I suppose we could also use the grub device (hd3,msdos3) in this case,
> but I do not know what is the mapping between /dev nodes and these devices,
> and if it is actually a function that could be computed from the file name
> in /dev only or not.

‘grub-probe’ should know, I think.

>>    (mapped-device
>>      (source (uuid "cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44")) ;LUKS UUID
>>      (target "root")
>>      (type luks-device-mapping))
>> we’d have to extend <mapped-device-kind> with a method to resolve UUIDs
>> (in this case, to map a UUID to a /dev node.)
>
> We can also let the users do the work (and document this in the manual),
> by having them supply all the informatin:
>
>    (mapped-device
>      (source "/dev/sdd3")
>      (uuid "cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44") ;LUKS UUID
>      (target "root")
>      (type luks-device-mapping)
>      (needed-for-boot? #t))

I think the goal of providing a UUID is to not have to worry about the
actual device name (which could change).

The ‘needed-for-boot?’ flag should be unnecessary because it can be
inferred from corresponding file systems, as is already the case.

>> Besides, I think we should only worry about the mapped device(s) that
>> back / and /boot, rather than any mapped device, no?
>
> This could either be solved by determining which file systems have
> needed-for-boot? #t and determine the corresponding mapped devices,
> or by adding such a parameter for the mapped-device as in my suggestion
> above.
>
> Or we do it all automatically for / and /boot and drop the parameter
> needed-for-boot? everywhere.

We keep it only in ‘file-system’, I think.

Anyway, sounds like quite a bit of work here.  :-)

Ludo’.

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