From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] dm: add support for passing through inline crypto support
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:32:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922003255.GC32959@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200909234422.76194-3-satyat@google.com>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:44:21PM +0000, Satya Tangirala wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
>
> Update the device-mapper core to support exposing the inline crypto
> support of the underlying device(s) through the device-mapper device.
>
> This works by creating a "passthrough keyslot manager" for the dm
> device, which declares support for encryption settings which all
> underlying devices support. When a supported setting is used, the bio
> cloning code handles cloning the crypto context to the bios for all the
> underlying devices. When an unsupported setting is used, the blk-crypto
> fallback is used as usual.
>
> Crypto support on each underlying device is ignored unless the
> corresponding dm target opts into exposing it. This is needed because
> for inline crypto to semantically operate on the original bio, the data
> must not be transformed by the dm target. Thus, targets like dm-linear
> can expose crypto support of the underlying device, but targets like
> dm-crypt can't. (dm-crypt could use inline crypto itself, though.)
>
> When a key is evicted from the dm device, it is evicted from all
> underlying devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Looks good as far as Satya's changes from my original patch are concerned.
Can the device-mapper maintainers take a look at this?
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-22 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-09 23:44 [PATCH 0/3] add support for inline encryption to device mapper Satya Tangirala
2020-09-09 23:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: keyslot-manager: Introduce passthrough keyslot manager Satya Tangirala
2020-09-22 0:27 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 23:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] dm: add support for passing through inline crypto support Satya Tangirala
2020-09-22 0:32 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2020-09-24 1:14 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-09-24 7:17 ` Satya Tangirala
2020-09-24 13:46 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-09-24 15:45 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-24 16:16 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-09-24 16:57 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-24 1:21 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-09-24 7:38 ` Satya Tangirala
2020-09-24 14:23 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-10-15 22:05 ` Satya Tangirala
2020-09-24 7:48 ` Satya Tangirala
2020-09-24 13:40 ` Mike Snitzer
2020-10-15 21:55 ` Satya Tangirala
2020-09-09 23:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm: enable may_passthrough_inline_crypto on some targets Satya Tangirala
2020-09-22 0:49 ` Eric Biggers
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