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TLS offload, netdev & MLX5 support

The following series provides TLS TX inline crypto offload.

v1->v2:
   - Added IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE) and a STATIC_KEY for icsk_clean_acked
   - File license fix
   - Fix spelling, comment by DaveW
   - Move memory allocations out of tls_set_device_offload and other misc fixes,
	comments by Kiril.

v2->v3:
   - Reversed xmas tree where needed and style fixes
   - Removed the need for skb_page_frag_refill, per Eric's comment
   - IPv6 dependency fixes

v3->v4:
   - Remove "inline" from functions in C files
   - Make clean_acked_data_enabled a static variable and add enable/disable functions to control it.
   - Remove unnecessary variable initialization mentioned by ShannonN
   - Rebase over TLS RX
   - Refactor the tls_software_fallback to reduce the number of variables mentioned by KirilT

v4->v5:
   - Add missing CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE

v5->v6:
   - Move changes to the software implementation into a seperate patch
   - Fix some checkpatch warnings
   - GPL export the enable/disable clean_acked_data functions

v6->v7:
   - Use the dst_entry to obtain the netdev in dev_get_by_index
   - Remove the IPv6 patch since it is redundent now

v7->v8:
   - Fix a merge conflict in mlx5 header

v8->v9:
   - Fix false -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
   - Fix empty space in the end of new files

v9->v10:
   - Remove default "n" in net/Kconfig

This series adds a generic infrastructure to offload TLS crypto to a
network devices. It enables the kernel TLS socket to skip encryption and
authentication operations on the transmit side of the data path. Leaving
those computationally expensive operations to the NIC.

The NIC offload infrastructure builds TLS records and pushes them to the
TCP layer just like the SW KTLS implementation and using the same API.
TCP segmentation is mostly unaffected. Currently the only exception is
that we prevent mixed SKBs where only part of the payload requires
offload. In the future we are likely to add a similar restriction
following a change cipher spec record.

The notable differences between SW KTLS and NIC offloaded TLS
implementations are as follows:
1. The offloaded implementation builds "plaintext TLS record", those
records contain plaintext instead of ciphertext and place holder bytes
instead of authentication tags.
2. The offloaded implementation maintains a mapping from TCP sequence
number to TLS records. Thus given a TCP SKB sent from a NIC offloaded
TLS socket, we can use the tls NIC offload infrastructure to obtain
enough context to encrypt the payload of the SKB.
A TLS record is released when the last byte of the record is ack'ed,
this is done through the new icsk_clean_acked callback.

The infrastructure should be extendable to support various NIC offload
implementations.  However it is currently written with the
implementation below in mind:
The NIC assumes that packets from each offloaded stream are sent as
plaintext and in-order. It keeps track of the TLS records in the TCP
stream. When a packet marked for offload is transmitted, the NIC
encrypts the payload in-place and puts authentication tags in the
relevant place holders.

The responsibility for handling out-of-order packets (i.e. TCP
retransmission, qdisc drops) falls on the netdev driver.

The netdev driver keeps track of the expected TCP SN from the NIC's
perspective.  If the next packet to transmit matches the expected TCP
SN, the driver advances the expected TCP SN, and transmits the packet
with TLS offload indication.

If the next packet to transmit does not match the expected TCP SN. The
driver calls the TLS layer to obtain the TLS record that includes the
TCP of the packet for transmission. Using this TLS record, the driver
posts a work entry on the transmit queue to reconstruct the NIC TLS
state required for the offload of the out-of-order packet. It updates
the expected TCP SN accordingly and transmit the now in-order packet.
The same queue is used for packet transmission and TLS context
reconstruction to avoid the need for flushing the transmit queue before
issuing the context reconstruction request.

Expected TCP SN is accessed without a lock, under the assumption that
TCP doesn't transmit SKBs from different TX queue concurrently.

If packets are rerouted to a different netdevice, then a software
fallback routine handles encryption.

Paper: https://www.netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/netdevconf-TLS.pdf
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-01 09:42:48 -04:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2018-04-25 22:55:33 -04:00
block blk-mq: Revert "blk-mq: reimplement blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped" 2018-04-11 07:59:15 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
Documentation ipv6: sr: Add documentation for seg_flowlabel sysctl 2018-04-27 20:23:56 -04:00
drivers net/mlx5e: TLS, Add error statistics 2018-05-01 09:42:48 -04:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs various SMB3/CIFS fixes for stable 4.17-rc1 2018-04-22 12:13:04 -07:00
include net/mlx5: Accel, Add TLS tx offload interface 2018-05-01 09:42:47 -04:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-04-26 21:19:50 -04:00
lib rhashtable: improve rhashtable_walk stability when stop/start used. 2018-04-24 13:21:46 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm/filemap.c: fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert() 2018-04-20 17:18:36 -07:00
net net/tls: Add generic NIC offload infrastructure 2018-05-01 09:42:47 -04:00
samples samples, bpf: remove redundant ret assignment in bpf_load_program() 2018-04-27 00:47:06 +02:00
scripts bpf: add script and prepare bpf.h for new helpers documentation 2018-04-27 00:21:58 +02:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.17-rc2 2018-04-21 10:32:16 -07:00
tools selftests: net: tcp_mmap must use TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE 2018-04-29 21:29:55 -04:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update TLS maintainers 2018-05-01 09:42:48 -04:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc2 2018-04-22 19:20:09 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.