• Satya Tangirala's avatar
    block/keyslot-manager: Introduce functions for device mapper support · d3b17a24
    Satya Tangirala authored
    Introduce blk_ksm_update_capabilities() to update the capabilities of
    a keyslot manager (ksm) in-place. The pointer to a ksm in a device's
    request queue may not be easily replaced, because upper layers like
    the filesystem might access it (e.g. for programming keys/checking
    capabilities) at the same time the device wants to replace that
    request queue's ksm (and free the old ksm's memory). This function
    allows the device to update the capabilities of the ksm in its request
    queue directly. Devices can safely update the ksm this way without any
    synchronization with upper layers *only* if the updated (new) ksm
    continues to support all the crypto capabilities that the old ksm did
    (see description below for blk_ksm_is_superset() for why this is so).
    
    Also introduce blk_ksm_is_superset() which checks whether one ksm's
    capabilities are a (not necessarily strict) superset of another ksm's.
    The blk-crypto framework requires that crypto capabilities that were
    advertised when a bio was created continue to be supported by the
    device until that bio is ended - in practice this probably means that
    a device's advertised crypto capabilities can *never* "shrink" (since
    there's no synchronization between bio creation and when a device may
    want to change its advertised capabilities) - so a previously
    advertised crypto capability must always continue to be supported.
    This function can be used to check that a new ksm is a valid
    replacement for an old ksm.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSatya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
    d3b17a24
keyslot-manager.c 15.5 KB