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| author | Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> | 2020-05-14 00:37:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2020-05-14 09:46:54 -0600 |
| commit | 1b2628397058ebce7277480960b29c788138de90 (patch) | |
| tree | c758aeb1f7e2331803968a6bafd4ab7a987d3e53 /block/Kconfig | |
| parent | 54b259f68de59920714588cb52c4a262cb712f98 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1b2628397058ebce7277480960b29c788138de90.tar.gz lwn-1b2628397058ebce7277480960b29c788138de90.zip | |
block: Keyslot Manager for Inline Encryption
Inline Encryption hardware allows software to specify an encryption context
(an encryption key, crypto algorithm, data unit num, data unit size) along
with a data transfer request to a storage device, and the inline encryption
hardware will use that context to en/decrypt the data. The inline
encryption hardware is part of the storage device, and it conceptually sits
on the data path between system memory and the storage device.
Inline Encryption hardware implementations often function around the
concept of "keyslots". These implementations often have a limited number
of "keyslots", each of which can hold a key (we say that a key can be
"programmed" into a keyslot). Requests made to the storage device may have
a keyslot and a data unit number associated with them, and the inline
encryption hardware will en/decrypt the data in the requests using the key
programmed into that associated keyslot and the data unit number specified
with the request.
As keyslots are limited, and programming keys may be expensive in many
implementations, and multiple requests may use exactly the same encryption
contexts, we introduce a Keyslot Manager to efficiently manage keyslots.
We also introduce a blk_crypto_key, which will represent the key that's
programmed into keyslots managed by keyslot managers. The keyslot manager
also functions as the interface that upper layers will use to program keys
into inline encryption hardware. For more information on the Keyslot
Manager, refer to documentation found in block/keyslot-manager.c and
linux/keyslot-manager.h.
Co-developed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 41cb34b0fcd1..f8870c316a03 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -186,6 +186,13 @@ config BLK_SED_OPAL Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol. +config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION + bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer" + help + Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the + block layer handle encryption, so users can take + advantage of inline encryption hardware if present. + menu "Partition Types" source "block/partitions/Kconfig" |