This commit sets the foundation for encrypting the libvirt secrets by providing 
a
secure way to pass a secret encryption key to the virtsecretd service.

A random secret key is generated using the new virt-secret-init-encryption
service. This key can be consumed by the virtsecretd service.

By using the "Before=" directive in the new secret-init-encryption
service and using "Requires=" directive in the virtsecretd service,
we make sure that the daemon is run only after we have an encrypted
secret key file generated and placed in /var/lib/libvirt/secrets.
The virtsecretd service can then read the key from CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY. [1]

This setup therefore provides a default key out-of-the-box for initial use.
A subsequent commit will introduce the logic for virtsecretd
to access and use this key via the $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY environment variable. 
[2]

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-creds.html
[2] https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/

Signed-off-by: Arun Menon <[email protected]>
---
 libvirt.spec.in                         |  7 +++++++
 src/secret/meson.build                  |  8 ++++++++
 src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in    | 11 +++++++++++
 src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in |  8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in

diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 79738bd7bb..fa477db031 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1889,13 +1889,16 @@ exit 0
 %pre daemon-driver-secret
 %libvirt_sysconfig_pre virtsecretd
 %libvirt_systemd_unix_pre virtsecretd
+%libvirt_systemd_oneshot_pre virt-secret-init-encryption
 
 %posttrans daemon-driver-secret
 %libvirt_sysconfig_posttrans virtsecretd
 %libvirt_systemd_unix_posttrans virtsecretd
+%libvirt_systemd_unix_posttrans virt-secret-init-encryption
 
 %preun daemon-driver-secret
 %libvirt_systemd_unix_preun virtsecretd
+%libvirt_systemd_unix_preun virt-secret-init-encryption
 
 %pre daemon-driver-storage-core
 %libvirt_sysconfig_pre virtstoraged
@@ -2247,9 +2250,13 @@ exit 0
 %{_datadir}/augeas/lenses/virtsecretd.aug
 %{_datadir}/augeas/lenses/tests/test_virtsecretd.aug
 %{_unitdir}/virtsecretd.service
+%{_unitdir}/virt-secret-init-encryption.service
 %{_unitdir}/virtsecretd.socket
 %{_unitdir}/virtsecretd-ro.socket
 %{_unitdir}/virtsecretd-admin.socket
+%{_unitdir}/virt-secret-init-encryption.socket
+%{_unitdir}/virt-secret-init-encryption-ro.socket
+%{_unitdir}/virt-secret-init-encryption-admin.socket
 %attr(0755, root, root) %{_sbindir}/virtsecretd
 %dir %attr(0700, root, root) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/secrets/
 %ghost %dir %attr(0700, root, root) %{_rundir}/libvirt/secrets/
diff --git a/src/secret/meson.build b/src/secret/meson.build
index 3b859ea7b4..d8861fcbcd 100644
--- a/src/secret/meson.build
+++ b/src/secret/meson.build
@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ if conf.has('WITH_SECRETS')
     ],
   }
 
+  virt_daemon_units += {
+    'service': 'virt-secret-init-encryption',
+    'name': 'secret-init-encryption',
+    'service_in': files('secret-init-encryption.in'),
+    'service_extra_in': [],
+    'socket_extra_in': [],
+  }
+
   openrc_init_files += {
     'name': 'virtsecretd',
     'in_file': files('virtsecretd.init.in'),
diff --git a/src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in 
b/src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4dc00e5bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Unit]
+Before=virtsecretd.service
+ConditionPathExists=!/var/lib/libvirt/secrets/secrets-encryption-key
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/sh -c 'test -f 
/var/lib/libvirt/secrets/secrets-encryption-key || (dd if=/dev/urandom 
status=none bs=32 count=1 | systemd-creds encrypt --name=secrets-encryption-key 
- /var/lib/libvirt/secrets/secrets-encryption-key)'
+ExecStart=-/usr/bin/chmod 0400 /var/lib/libvirt/secrets/secrets-encryption-key
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in 
b/src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in
index 1fc8c672f7..1df9163814 100644
--- a/src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in
+++ b/src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
 # The contents of this unit will be merged into a base template.
 # Additional units might be merged as well. See meson.build for details.
+#
+[Unit]
+Requires=virt-secret-init-encryption.service
+After=virt-secret-init-encryption.service
+
+[Service]
+LoadCredentialEncrypted=secrets-encryption-key:/var/lib/libvirt/secrets/secrets-encryption-key
+Environment=SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_KEY=%d/secrets-encryption-key
-- 
2.51.1

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