[PATCH 5/9] nvmet-auth: parse dhchap key from configfs attribute

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Mon Dec 1 01:02:38 PST 2025


On 11/30/25 22:53, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/05/2025 17:05, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> When writing a new dhchap key to the 'dhchap_secret' attribute
>> we should be parsing it directly and only use the pointer to the
>> inserted key. This avoids having to pass around a pointer with the
>> actual key material.
> 
> Hannes, is this an intermediate phase? one that will be replaced by a 
> keyring?
> If so, its good to indicate this in the patch description.

Yes, this is an intermediate step before we switch to use the kernel
keying. Will be updating the description.

Cheers,

Hannes
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