[PATCH rdma-next 00/13] Add RDMA inline crypto support

[Chaitanya Kulkarni]

Eric,

>> Notes:
>>   - At plaintext mode only, the user set a master key and the fscrypt
>>     driver derived from it the DEK and the key identifier.
>>   - 152c41b2ea39fa3d90ea06448456e7fb is the derived key identifier
>>   - Only on the first IO, nvme-rdma gets a callback to load the derived DEK.
>>
>> There is no special configuration to support crypto at nvme modules.
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> Very interesting work!  Can you Cc me on future versions?
> 
> I'm glad to see that this hardware allows all 16 IV bytes to be specified.
> 
> Does it also handle programming and evicting keys efficiently?
> 
> Also, just checking: have you tested that the ciphertext that this inline
> encryption hardware produces is correct?  That's always super important to test.
> There are xfstests that test for it, e.g. generic/582.  Another way to test it
> is to just manually test whether encrypted files that were created when the
> filesystem was mounted with '-o inlinecrypt' show the same contents when the
> filesystem is *not* mounted with '-o inlinecrypt' (or vice versa).
> 
> - Eric
> 

I'm wondering which are the xfstests that needs to run in order
to establish the correctness/stability apart from generic/582
this work ?

-ck