[PATCH 1/2] nvmet: Implement 'admin_only' authentication

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Fri Jan 24 05:51:14 PST 2025


On 1/24/25 14:49, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/01/2025 13:47, hare at kernel.org wrote:
>> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>
>>
>> The spec allows for authentication to run on admin queues only, and 
>> secure
>> concatenation even requires it. So add a configfs attribute 
>> 'dhchap_admin_only'
>> to the target configuration to allow for testing independently of secure
>> concatenation.
> 
> Why do we want it conditionally? why not always?

Because we did support it originally, so I thought to play it safe.
Plus it'll cause a regression with the host implementation if applied
on its own.

But if you say so ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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