From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>,
Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>,
Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>,
Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>,
Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com>,
Menglong Dong <dong.menglong@zte.com.cn>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCv3 05/15] tcp: authopt: Add crypto initialization
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:08:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210825080817.GA19149@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30f73293-ea03-d18f-d923-0cf499d4b208@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:34:58PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> On 8/24/21 2:34 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> > The crypto_shash API is used in order to compute packet signatures. The
> > API comes with several unfortunate limitations:
> >
> > 1) Allocating a crypto_shash can sleep and must be done in user context.
> > 2) Packet signatures must be computed in softirq context
> > 3) Packet signatures use dynamic "traffic keys" which require exclusive
> > access to crypto_shash for crypto_setkey.
> >
> > The solution is to allocate one crypto_shash for each possible cpu for
> > each algorithm at setsockopt time. The per-cpu tfm is then borrowed from
> > softirq context, signatures are computed and the tfm is returned.
> >
>
> I could not see the per-cpu stuff that you mention in the changelog.
Perhaps it's time we moved the key information from the tfm into
the request structure for hashes? Or at least provide a way for
the key to be in the request structure in addition to the tfm as
the tfm model still works for IPsec. Ard/Eric, what do you think
about that?
Thanks,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-25 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-24 21:34 [RFCv3 00/15] tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 01/15] tcp: authopt: Initial support and key management Leonard Crestez
2021-08-31 19:04 ` Dmitry Safonov
2021-09-03 14:26 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 02/15] docs: Add user documentation for tcp_authopt Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 03/15] selftests: Initial tcp_authopt test module Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 04/15] selftests: tcp_authopt: Initial sockopt manipulation Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 05/15] tcp: authopt: Add crypto initialization Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 23:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-08-24 23:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-08-25 8:08 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2021-08-25 14:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-08-25 16:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-08-25 16:31 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-25 16:35 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-25 17:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-08-25 18:56 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 06/15] tcp: authopt: Compute packet signatures Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 07/15] tcp: authopt: Hook into tcp core Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 22:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-08-25 16:32 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 08/15] tcp: authopt: Add snmp counters Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 09/15] selftests: tcp_authopt: Test key address binding Leonard Crestez
2021-08-25 5:18 ` David Ahern
2021-08-25 16:37 ` Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 10/15] selftests: tcp_authopt: Capture and verify packets Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 11/15] selftests: Initial tcp_authopt support for nettest Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 12/15] selftests: Initial tcp_authopt support for fcnal-test Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 13/15] selftests: Add -t tcp_authopt option for fcnal-test.sh Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 14/15] tcp: authopt: Add key selection controls Leonard Crestez
2021-08-24 21:34 ` [RFCv3 15/15] selftests: tcp_authopt: Add tests for rollover Leonard Crestez
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