[PATCH rdma-next 00/13] Add RDMA inline crypto support
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Mon Jan 30 04:36:10 PST 2023
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:57:18PM +0200, Israel Rukshin wrote:
>> - what happens with multipathing? when if not all devices are
>> capable. SW fallback?
> SW fallback happens every time the device doesn't support the specific
> crypto request (which include data-unit-size, mode and dun_bytes).
> So with multipathing, one path uses the HW crypto offload and the other one
> uses the SW fallback.
That's a big no-go. The blk-crypto-fallback code is just a toy example
and not actually safe to use in prodution. Most importantly it just
kmallocs a bio clone and pages for it without any mempool that guarantees
forward progress.
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