netdev - [PATCH] mlx5: TLS 1.3 hardware offload support

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Message-Id: <20251230224137.3600355-3-rjethwani@purestorage.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:41:37 -0700
From: Rishikesh Jethwani <rjethwani@...estorage.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: saeedm@...dia.com,
	tariqt@...dia.com,
	mbloch@...dia.com,
	borisp@...dia.com,
	john.fastabend@...il.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	sd@...asysnail.net,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	Rishikesh Jethwani <rjethwani@...estorage.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mlx5: TLS 1.3 hardware offload support

Add TLS 1.3 hardware offload support to mlx5 driver, enabling both
TX and RX hardware acceleration for TLS 1.3 connections on Mellanox
ConnectX-6 Dx and newer adapters.

This patch enables:
- TLS 1.3 version detection and validation with proper capability
checking
- TLS 1.3 crypto context configuration using
MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_3 (0x3)
- Correct IV handling for TLS 1.3 (12-byte IV vs TLS 1.2's 4-byte salt)
- Hardware offload for both TLS 1.3 AES-GCM-128 and AES-GCM-256 cipher
suites

Key differences from TLS 1.2:
- TLS 1.2: Only 4-byte salt copied to gcm_iv, explicit IV in each record
- TLS 1.3: Full 12-byte IV (salt + iv) copied to gcm_iv + implicit_iv
  * salt (4 bytes) → gcm_iv[0:3]
  * iv (8 bytes)   → gcm_iv[4:7] + implicit_iv[0:3]
  * Note: gcm_iv and implicit_iv are contiguous in memory

The EXTRACT_INFO_FIELDS macro is updated to also extract the 'iv' field
which is needed for TLS 1.3.

Testing:
Verified on Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx (Crypto Enabled) (MT2892) using
ktls_test suite. Both TX and RX hardware offload working successfully
with TLS 1.3 AES-GCM-128 and AES-GCM-256 cipher suites.

Signed-off-by: Rishikesh Jethwani <rjethwani@...estorage.com>
---
 .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls.h        |  8 +++++-
 .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.c   | 14 ++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls.h
index f11075e67658..b2d4f887582c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls.h
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ static inline bool mlx5e_is_ktls_device(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev)
 		return false;
 
 	return (MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev, tls_1_2_aes_gcm_128) ||
-		MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev, tls_1_2_aes_gcm_256));
+		MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev, tls_1_2_aes_gcm_256) ||
+		MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev, tls_1_3_aes_gcm_128) ||
+		MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev, tls_1_3_aes_gcm_256));
 }
 
 static inline bool mlx5e_ktls_type_check(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
@@ -39,10 +41,14 @@ static inline bool mlx5e_ktls_type_check(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
 	case TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128:
 		if (crypto_info->version == TLS_1_2_VERSION)
 			return MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev,  tls_1_2_aes_gcm_128);
+		else if (crypto_info->version == TLS_1_3_VERSION)
+			return MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev,  tls_1_3_aes_gcm_128);
 		break;
 	case TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_256:
 		if (crypto_info->version == TLS_1_2_VERSION)
 			return MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev,  tls_1_2_aes_gcm_256);
+		else if (crypto_info->version == TLS_1_3_VERSION)
+			return MLX5_CAP_TLS(mdev,  tls_1_3_aes_gcm_256);
 		break;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.c
index 570a912dd6fa..2e845f88a86c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 enum {
 	MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_2 = 0x2,
+	MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_3 = 0x3,
 };
 
 enum {
@@ -15,8 +16,10 @@ enum {
 #define EXTRACT_INFO_FIELDS do { \
 	salt    = info->salt;    \
 	rec_seq = info->rec_seq; \
+	iv      = info->iv;      \
 	salt_sz    = sizeof(info->salt);    \
 	rec_seq_sz = sizeof(info->rec_seq); \
+	iv_sz      = sizeof(info->iv);      \
 } while (0)
 
 static void
@@ -25,8 +28,8 @@ fill_static_params(struct mlx5_wqe_tls_static_params_seg *params,
 		   u32 key_id, u32 resync_tcp_sn)
 {
 	char *initial_rn, *gcm_iv;
-	u16 salt_sz, rec_seq_sz;
-	char *salt, *rec_seq;
+	u16 salt_sz, rec_seq_sz, iv_sz;
+	char *salt, *rec_seq, *iv;
 	u8 tls_version;
 	u8 *ctx;
 
@@ -59,7 +62,12 @@ fill_static_params(struct mlx5_wqe_tls_static_params_seg *params,
 	memcpy(gcm_iv,      salt,    salt_sz);
 	memcpy(initial_rn,  rec_seq, rec_seq_sz);
 
-	tls_version = MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_2;
+	if (crypto_info->crypto_info.version == TLS_1_3_VERSION) {
+		memcpy(gcm_iv + salt_sz, iv, iv_sz);
+		tls_version = MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_3;
+	} else {
+		tls_version = MLX5E_STATIC_PARAMS_CONTEXT_TLS_1_2;
+	}
 
 	MLX5_SET(tls_static_params, ctx, tls_version, tls_version);
 	MLX5_SET(tls_static_params, ctx, const_1, 1);
-- 
2.25.1