From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Cc: 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,
Barani Muthukumaran <bmuthuku@qti.qualcomm.com>,
Kuohong Wang <kuohong.wang@mediatek.com>,
Kim Boojin <boojin.kim@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] block: blk-crypto for Inline Encryption
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:57:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191031175713.GA23601@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191028072032.6911-4-satyat@google.com>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:20:26AM -0700, Satya Tangirala wrote:
> We introduce blk-crypto, which manages programming keyslots for struct
> bios. With blk-crypto, filesystems only need to call bio_crypt_set_ctx with
> the encryption key, algorithm and data_unit_num; they don't have to worry
> about getting a keyslot for each encryption context, as blk-crypto handles
> that. Blk-crypto also makes it possible for layered devices like device
> mapper to make use of inline encryption hardware.
>
> Blk-crypto delegates crypto operations to inline encryption hardware when
> available, and also contains a software fallback to the kernel crypto API.
> For more details, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
Can you explain why we need this software fallback that basically just
duplicates logic already in fscrypt? As far as I can tell this fallback
logic actually is more code than the actual inline encryption, and nasty
code at that, e.g. the whole crypt_iter thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-31 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-28 7:20 [PATCH v5 0/9] Inline Encryption Support Satya Tangirala
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] block: Keyslot Manager for Inline Encryption Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 18:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] block: Add encryption context to struct bio Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 18:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] block: blk-crypto for Inline Encryption Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 17:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-10-31 20:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-31 21:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-05 2:01 ` Eric Biggers
2019-11-05 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] scsi: ufs: UFS driver v2.1 spec crypto additions Satya Tangirala
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] scsi: ufs: UFS crypto API Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 18:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] scsi: ufs: Add inline encryption support to UFS Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 18:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] fscrypt: add inline encryption support Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 18:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-31 20:21 ` Eric Biggers
2019-10-31 21:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-31 22:25 ` Eric Biggers
2019-11-05 0:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-05 1:03 ` Eric Biggers
2019-11-05 3:12 ` Eric Biggers
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] f2fs: " Satya Tangirala
2019-10-31 17:14 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2019-10-28 7:20 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] ext4: " Satya Tangirala
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