From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Satya Tangirala <satyaprateek2357@gmail.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] blk-crypto: rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 09:28:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV2kdHeS4GTXUdpi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210929163600.52141-4-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Wed, Sep 29 2021 at 12:35P -0400,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
>
> blk_keyslot_manager is misnamed because it doesn't necessarily manage
> keyslots. It actually does several different things:
>
> - Contains the crypto capabilities of the device.
>
> - Provides functions to control the inline encryption hardware.
> Originally these were just for programming/evicting keyslots;
> however, new functionality (hardware-wrapped keys) will require new
> functions here which are unrelated to keyslots. Moreover,
> device-mapper devices already (ab)use "keyslot_evict" to pass key
> eviction requests to their underlying devices even though
> device-mapper devices don't have any keyslots themselves (so it
> really should be "evict_key", not "keyslot_evict").
>
> - Sometimes (but not always!) it manages keyslots. Originally it
> always did, but device-mapper devices don't have keyslots
> themselves, so they use a "passthrough keyslot manager" which
> doesn't actually manage keyslots. This hack works, but the
> terminology is unnatural. Also, some hardware doesn't have keyslots
> and thus also uses a "passthrough keyslot manager" (support for such
> hardware is yet to be upstreamed, but it will happen eventually).
>
> Let's stop having keyslot managers which don't actually manage keyslots.
> Instead, rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile.
>
> This is a fairly big change, since for consistency it also has to update
> keyslot manager-related function names, variable names, and comments --
> not just the actual struct name. However it's still a fairly
> straightforward change, as it doesn't change any actual functionality.
>
> Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # For MMC
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Unfortunate how fiddley this change forced you to get but it looks
like you've done a very solid job of cleaning it all up to be
consistent.
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-06 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 16:35 [PATCH v4 0/4] blk-crypto cleanups Eric Biggers
2021-09-29 16:35 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] blk-crypto-fallback: properly prefix function and struct names Eric Biggers
2021-10-06 13:24 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-09-29 16:35 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] blk-crypto: rename keyslot-manager files to blk-crypto-profile Eric Biggers
2021-10-06 13:25 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-09-29 16:35 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] blk-crypto: rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile Eric Biggers
2021-10-06 13:28 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2021-10-06 19:19 ` Eric Biggers
2021-09-29 16:36 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] blk-crypto: update inline encryption documentation Eric Biggers
2021-10-06 13:29 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-05 17:26 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] blk-crypto cleanups Eric Biggers
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