From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Lior Nahmanson <liorna@nvidia.com>
Cc: edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 00/3] Introduce MACsec offload SKB extension
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 18:40:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ynfkc7CxqF29VTBv@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220508090954.10864-1-liorna@nvidia.com>
On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 12:09:51PM +0300, Lior Nahmanson wrote:
> This patchset introduces MACsec SKB extension to lay the ground
> for MACsec HW offload.
>
> MACsec is an IEEE standard (IEEE 802.1AE) for MAC security.
> It defines a way to establish a protocol independent connection
> between two hosts with data confidentiality, authenticity and/or
> integrity, using GCM-AES. MACsec operates on the Ethernet layer and
> as such is a layer 2 protocol, which means it’s designed to secure
> traffic within a layer 2 network, including DHCP or ARP requests.
>
> Linux has a software implementation of the MACsec standard and
> HW offloading support.
> The offloading is re-using the logic, netlink API and data
> structures of the existing MACsec software implementation.
>
> For Tx:
> In the current MACsec offload implementation, MACsec interfaces are
> sharing the same MAC address of their parent interface by default.
> Therefore, HW can't distinguish if a packet was sent from MACsec
> interface and need to be offloaded or not.
> Also, it can't distinguish from which MACsec interface it was sent in
> case there are multiple MACsec interface with the same MAC address.
>
> Used SKB extension, so SW can mark if a packet is needed to be offloaded
> and use the SCI, which is unique value for each MACsec interface,
> to notify the HW from which MACsec interface the packet is sent.
>
> For Rx:
> Like in the Tx changes, packet that don't have SecTAG
> header aren't necessary been offloaded by the HW.
> Therefore, the MACsec driver needs to distinguish if the packet
> was offloaded or not and handle accordingly.
> Moreover, if there are more than one MACsec device with the same MAC
> address as in the packet's destination MAC, the packet will forward only
> to this device and only to the desired one.
>
> Used SKB extension and marking it by the HW if the packet was offloaded
> and to which MACsec offload device it belongs according to the packet's
> SCI.
>
> 1) patch 0001-0002, Add support to SKB extension in MACsec code:
> net/macsec: Add MACsec skb extension Tx Data path support
> net/macsec: Add MACsec skb extension Rx Data path support
>
> 2) patch 0003, Move some MACsec driver code for sharing with various
> drivers that implements offload:
> net/macsec: Move some code for sharing with various drivers that
> implements offload
Can you please post diffstat and patch list of the series?
As a reply to this cover letter.
As an example:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220508153049.427227-1-andrew@lunn.ch/T/#m3c6fbfaa6c4e8c841e8bbb7e8953daefd2a53cd9
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-08 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-08 9:09 [PATCH net-next v1 00/3] Introduce MACsec offload SKB extension Lior Nahmanson
2022-05-08 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next v1 01/03] net/macsec: Add MACsec skb extension Tx Data path support Lior Nahmanson
2022-05-10 9:23 ` Paolo Abeni
2022-05-19 6:26 ` Lior Nahmanson
2022-05-08 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next v1 02/03] net/macsec: Add MACsec skb extension Rx " Lior Nahmanson
2022-05-08 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next v1 03/03] net/macsec: Move some code for sharing with various drivers that implements offload Lior Nahmanson
2022-05-08 15:40 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2022-05-09 6:41 ` [PATCH net-next v1 00/3] Introduce MACsec offload SKB extension Lior Nahmanson
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