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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Barani Muthukumaran <bmuthuku@qti.qualcomm.com>,
	Kuohong Wang <kuohong.wang@mediatek.com>,
	Kim Boojin <boojin.kim@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/11] block: Keyslot Manager for Inline Encryption
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:00:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200327170047.GA24682@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326062213.GF858@sol.localdomain>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:22:13PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION
> > +	/* Inline crypto capabilities */
> > +	struct blk_keyslot_manager *ksm;
> > +#endif
> 
> I do still wonder whether the concept of inline crypto support should be more
> separated from keyslot management, to be better prepared for device-mapper
> passthrough support and for hardware that accepts keys directly.  (Such hardware
> exists, though I'm not sure support for it will be upstreamed.)  For example,
> the crypto capabilities could be stored in a 'struct blk_crypto_capabilities'
> rather than in 'struct blk_keyslot_manager', and the latter could be optional.
> 
> What you have now is fine for the functionality in the current patchset though,
> so I'm not really complaining.  Just something to think about.

I'd rather keep things simple (aka as-is) for now.  If needed we can
change it. I doubt we'll even have a handful drivers with inline
crypto in the next years..

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26  3:06 [PATCH v9 00/11] Inline Encryption Support Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 01/11] block: Keyslot Manager for Inline Encryption Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  6:22   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-27 17:00     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 02/11] block: Inline encryption support for blk-mq Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26 20:05   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-27 17:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 03/11] block: Make blk-integrity preclude hardware inline encryption Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 04/11] block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline Encryption Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26 20:28   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 05/11] scsi: ufs: UFS driver v2.1 spec crypto additions Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 06/11] scsi: ufs: UFS crypto API Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  5:07   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 07/11] scsi: ufs: Add inline encryption support to UFS Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  5:09   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-26  3:06 ` [PATCH v9 08/11] fs: introduce SB_INLINECRYPT Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  5:56   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-26  3:07 ` [PATCH v9 09/11] fscrypt: add inline encryption support Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  5:45   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-26  3:07 ` [PATCH v9 10/11] f2fs: " Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  3:07 ` [PATCH v9 11/11] ext4: " Satya Tangirala
2020-03-26  3:32 ` [PATCH v9 00/11] Inline Encryption Support Eric Biggers

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