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

[Eric Biggers]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 07:14:30AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

See https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/fscrypt.html#tests.

- Eric