LUKS2 specification allows various size of LUKS2 metadata.
The single metadata instance is composed of LUKS2 binary header
(4096 bytes) and immediately following json area. The resulting
assembled metadata size have to be one of following values,
all in KiB:
16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096
All previous version of cryptsetup wiped only first 4k for LUKS1
and both JSON areas for LUKS2 (first 32k) and the allocated
keyslot area (as it contained the generated key).
Remaining areas (unused keyslots, padding, and alignment) were
not wiped and could contain some previous data.
Since this commit, the whole area up to the data offset is zeroed,
and subsequently, all keyslots areas are wiped with random data.
Only exceptions are
- padding/alignment areas for detached header
if the data offset is set to 0
- bogus LUKS1 keyslot areas (upstream code never
created such keyslots but someone could use that).
This operation could slow down luksFormat on some devices, but
it guarantees that after this operation LUKS header does not
contain any foreign data.
When LUKS2 crypt_format() is called with detached header and custom data
alignment is requested, keyslots area is miscalculated. This mistake
is correctly detected by LUKS2 validation code but it's feature
regression with regard to LUKSv1 format.
