netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/macsec copy salt to MACSec ctx for XPN

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Date:   Fri, 6 May 2022 08:12:51 +0000
From:   Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Carlos Fernansez <carlos.escuin@...il.com>,
        "carlos.fernandez@...hnica-enineering.de" 
        <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-enineering.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/macsec copy salt to MACSec ctx for XPN

Thanks, Jakub. I'll create a new patch with all the changes and send it again.

________________________________________
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 6:04 PM
To: Carlos Fernandez
Cc: Paolo Abeni; Carlos Fernansez; carlos.fernandez@...hnica-enineering.de; David S. Miller; Eric Dumazet; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/macsec copy salt to MACSec ctx for XPN

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On Thu, 5 May 2022 12:32:33 +0000 Carlos Fernandez wrote:
> When macsec offloading is used with XPN, before mdo_add_rxsa
> and mdo_add_txsa functions are called, the key salt is not
> copied to the macsec context struct.


So that it can be read out later by user space, but kernel
doesn't need it. Is that correct?

Please also see below.

> Fix by copying salt to context struct before calling the
> offloading functions.
>
> Fixes: 48ef50fa866a ("macsec: Netlink support of XPN cipher suites")
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/macsec.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

[snip]

>         rtnl_unlock();
> --
> 2.25.1
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:42 PM
> To: Carlos Fernansez
> Cc: carlos.fernandez@...hnica-enineering.de; Carlos Fernandez; David S. Miller; Eric Dumazet; Jakub Kicinski; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/macsec copy salt to MACSec ctx for XPN
>
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> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 14:18 +0200, Carlos Fernansez wrote:
> > From: Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>
> >
> > Salt and KeyId copied to offloading context.
> >
> > If not, offloaded phys cannot work with XPN
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos Fernandez <carlos.fernandez@...hnica-engineering.de>
>
> This looks like a bugfix, could you please provide a relevant 'Fixes'
> tag? (in a v2).