linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 00/13] Add RDMA inline crypto support

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Message-ID: <6f9da88c-f01e-156b-eb19-0b275c46c6b5@grimberg.me>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:27:10 +0200
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Israel Rukshin <israelr@...dia.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@...adcom.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 00/13] Add RDMA inline crypto support


>  From Israel,
> 
> The purpose of this patchset is to add support for inline
> encryption/decryption of the data at storage protocols like nvmf over
> RDMA (at a similar way like integrity is used via unique mkey).
> 
> This patchset adds support for plaintext keys. The patches were tested
> on BF-3 HW with fscrypt tool to test this feature, which showed reduce
> in CPU utilization when comparing at 64k or more IO size. The CPU utilization
> was improved by more than 50% comparing to the SW only solution at this case.
> 
> How to configure fscrypt to enable plaintext keys:
>   # mkfs.ext4 -O encrypt /dev/nvme0n1
>   # mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/crypto -o inlinecrypt
>   # head -c 64 /dev/urandom > /tmp/master_key
>   # fscryptctl add_key /mnt/crypto/ < /tmp/master_key
>   # mkdir /mnt/crypto/test1
>   # fscryptctl set_policy 152c41b2ea39fa3d90ea06448456e7fb /mnt/crypto/test1
>     ** “152c41b2ea39fa3d90ea06448456e7fb” is the output of the
>        “fscryptctl add_key” command.
>   # echo foo > /mnt/crypto/test1/foo
> 
> Notes:
>   - At plaintext mode only, the user set a master key and the fscrypt
>     driver derived from it the DEK and the key identifier.
>   - 152c41b2ea39fa3d90ea06448456e7fb is the derived key identifier
>   - Only on the first IO, nvme-rdma gets a callback to load the derived DEK.
> 
> There is no special configuration to support crypto at nvme modules.

Hey, this looks sane to me in a very first glance.

Few high level questions:
- what happens with multipathing? when if not all devices are
capable. SW fallback?
- Does the crypt stuff stay intact when bio is requeued?

I'm assuming you tested this with multipathing? This is not very
useful if it is incompatible with it.