[RFC PATCH 00/18] nvme: In-kernel TLS support for TCP

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Wed Mar 22 08:43:11 PDT 2023


>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> finally I've managed to put all things together and enable in-kernel
>>>>>>> TLS support for NVMe-over-TCP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hannes (and Chuck) this is great, I'm very happy to see this!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll start a detailed review soon enough.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for doing this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The patchset is based on the TLS upcall mechanism from Chuck Lever
>>>>>>> (cf '[PATCH v7 0/2] Another crack at a handshake upcall mechanism'
>>>>>>> posted to the linux netdev list), and requires the 'tlshd' userspace
>>>>>>> daemon (https://github.com/oracle/ktls-utils) for the actual TLS 
>>>>>>> handshake.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have an actual link to follow for this patch set?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hare/scsi-devel.git
>>>>> branch tls-netlink.v7
>>>>
>>>> I meant Chuck's posting on linux-netdev.
>>>
>>> To be found here:
>>>
>>> <https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg890047.html>
>>
>> Nice, it would be great to see code, if you have it, for nvme-cli and/or
>> nvmetcli as well.
> 
> PR for libnvme: PR#599
> PR for nvme-cli: PR#1868
> 
> which is just for updating 'nvme gen-tls-key' to allow the admin to 
> provision 'retained' PSKs in the kernel keyring.
> 
> For nvmetcli we actually don't need an update; everything works with the 
> existing code :-)

Can you send these patches together with the next round of submission?



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