dm crypt: reject key strings containing whitespace chars

Unfortunately key_string may theoretically contain whitespace even after
it's processed by dm_split_args().  The reason for this is DM core
supports escaping of almost all chars including any whitespace.

If userspace passes a key to the kernel in format ":32:logon:my_prefix:my\ key"
dm-crypt will look up key "my_prefix:my key" in kernel keyring service.
So far everything's fine.

Unfortunately if userspace later calls DM_TABLE_STATUS ioctl, it will not
receive back expected ":32:logon:my_prefix:my\ key" but the unescaped version
instead.  Also userpace (most notably cryptsetup) is not ready to parse
single target argument containing (even escaped) whitespace chars and any
whitespace is simply taken as delimiter of another argument.

This effect is mitigated by the fact libdevmapper curently performs
double escaping of '\' char.  Any user input in format "x\ x" is
transformed into "x\\ x" before being passed to the kernel.  Nonetheless
dm-crypt may be used without libdevmapper.  Therefore the near-term
solution to this is to reject any key string containing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

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