From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next V2] docs: tls: Enhance TLS resync async process documentation
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1768298883-1602599-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com> (raw)
From: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Expand the tls-offload.rst documentation to provide a more detailed
explanation of the asynchronous resync process, including the role
of struct tls_offload_resync_async in managing resync requests on
the kernel side.
Also, add documentation for helper functions
tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_start/ _end/ _cancel.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
V2:
- Fix style issues.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
index 7354d48cdf92..42800d86d269 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
@@ -318,6 +318,36 @@ is restarted.
When the header is matched the device sends a confirmation request
to the kernel, asking if the guessed location is correct (if a TLS record
really starts there), and which record sequence number the given header had.
+
+The asynchronous resync process is coordinated on the kernel side using
+struct tls_offload_resync_async, which tracks and manages the resync request.
+
+Helper functions to manage struct tls_offload_resync_async:
+
+``tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_start()``
+Initializes an asynchronous resync attempt by specifying the sequence range to
+monitor and resetting internal state in the struct.
+
+``tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_end()``
+Retains the device's guessed TCP sequence number for comparison with current or
+future logged ones. It also clears the RESYNC_REQ_ASYNC flag from the resync
+request, indicating that the device has submitted its guessed sequence number.
+
+``tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_cancel()``
+Cancels any in-progress resync attempt, clearing the request state.
+
+When the kernel processes an RX segment that begins a new TLS record, it
+examines the current status of the asynchronous resynchronization request.
+
+If the device is still waiting to provide its guessed TCP sequence number
+(the async state), the kernel records the sequence number of this segment so
+that it can later be compared once the device's guess becomes available.
+
+If the device has already submitted its guessed sequence number (the non-async
+state), the kernel now tries to match that guess against the sequence numbers of
+all TLS record headers that have been logged since the resync request
+started.
+
The kernel confirms the guessed location was correct and tells the device
the record sequence number. Meanwhile, the device had been parsing
and counting all records since the just-confirmed one, it adds the number
base-commit: cbe8e6bef6a3b4b895b47ea56f5952f1936aacb6
--
2.31.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-13 10:09 UTC|newest]
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2026-01-13 10:08 Tariq Toukan [this message]
2026-01-16 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next V2] docs: tls: Enhance TLS resync async process documentation Simon Horman
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