linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 31/34] cifs: Fix problem with encrypted RDMA data read

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:25:38 +0100
From:   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...ba.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
        Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>,
        Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 31/34] cifs: Fix problem with encrypted RDMA data read

Am 17.01.23 um 00:11 schrieb David Howells:
> When the cifs client is talking to the ksmbd server by RDMA and the ksmbd
> server has "smb3 encryption = yes" in its config file, the normal PDU
> stream is encrypted, but the directly-delivered data isn't in the stream
> (and isn't encrypted), but is rather delivered by DDP/RDMA packets (at
> least with IWarp).

In that case the client must not use DDP/RDMA offload!
This needs to be fixed in the request code for both read and write!

metze