[PATCH 07/12] nvme: Implement In-Band authentication

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Tue Mar 22 05:10:49 PDT 2022


On 3/22/22 12:40, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
> 
> On 12/2/2021 5:23 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Implement NVMe-oF In-Band authentication according to NVMe TPAR 8006.
>> This patch adds two new fabric options 'dhchap_secret' to specify the
>> pre-shared key (in ASCII respresentation according to NVMe 2.0 section
>> 8.13.5.8 'Secret representation') and 'dhchap_ctrl_secret' to specify
>> the pre-shared controller key for bi-directional authentication of both
>> the host and the controller.
>> Re-authentication can be triggered by writing the PSK into the new
>> controller sysfs attribute 'dhchap_secret' or 'dhchap_ctrl_secret'.
> 
> Can you please add to commit log an example of the process ?
> 
>  From target configuration through the 'nvme connect' cmd.
> 
> 

Please check:

https://github.com/hreinecke/blktests/tree/auth.v3

That contains the blktest scripts I'm using to validate the implementation.

Cheers,

Hannes
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