Re: [PATCH 5/5] Cryptomount support for hyphens in UUID

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:51:44 +0100
John Lane <address@hidden> пишет:

> On 29/07/15 04:08, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > I still believe that generally ignoring hyphens for every future crypto
> > implementation is wrong. In future we simply should avoid mangling
> > UUID. So this should be restricted to LUKS only, where the problem
> > exists.
> >
> >
> Andrei I modified this in response to your earlier feedback so that it
> doesn't modify the user-supplied data and doesn't have any effect beyond
> the three places I mentioned.

That not what I mean. This patch ignores hyphens in UUID for any
current and future crypto backends. This means that it cannot
distinguish between 11-122 and 111-22 as UUID. And we cannot be sure we
never meet such backend. And GELI as far as I can tell does not
actually use hyphens.

We already made mistake of mangling native UUID, I'd rather avoid
continue to do it.

Can we restrict this to LUKS only? 

>                              These have no negative impact on uuid
> values used elesewere. If you don't want to support this fair enough -
> this can be dropped without impacting the other patches.
> 
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