[PATCH v5 0/3 RESEND] sed-opal: keyrings, discovery, revert, key store
Greg Joyce
gjoyce at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 17 05:45:46 AEST 2023
It's been almost 4 weeks since the last resend and there haven't been
any comments. Is there anything that needs to be changed for
acceptance?
Thanks for your input.
Greg
On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 16:15 -0500, gjoyce at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: Greg Joyce <gjoyce at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> This patchset has gone through numerous rounds of review and
> all comments/suggetions have been addressed. The reviews have
> covered all relevant areas including reviews by block and keyring
> developers as well as the SED Opal maintainer. The last
> patchset submission has not solicited any responses in the
> six weeks since it was last distributed. The changes are
> generally useful and ready for inclusion.
>
> TCG SED Opal is a specification from The Trusted Computing Group
> that allows self encrypting storage devices (SED) to be locked at
> power on and require an authentication key to unlock the drive.
>
> The current SED Opal implementation in the block driver
> requires that authentication keys be provided in an ioctl
> so that they can be presented to the underlying SED
> capable drive. Currently, the key is typically entered by
> a user with an application like sedutil or sedcli. While
> this process works, it does not lend itself to automation
> like unlock by a udev rule.
>
> The SED block driver has been extended so it can alternatively
> obtain a key from a sed-opal kernel keyring. The SED ioctls
> will indicate the source of the key, either directly in the
> ioctl data or from the keyring.
>
> Two new SED ioctls have also been added. These are:
> 1) IOC_OPAL_REVERT_LSP to revert LSP state
> 2) IOC_OPAL_DISCOVERY to discover drive capabilities/state
>
> change log v5:
> - rebase to for-6.5/block
>
> change log v4:
> - rebase to 6.3-rc7
> - replaced "255" magic number with U8_MAX
>
> change log:
> - rebase to 6.x
> - added latest reviews
> - removed platform functions for persistent key storage
> - replaced key update logic with key_create_or_update()
> - minor bracing and padding changes
> - add error returns
> - opal_key structure is application provided but kernel
> verified
> - added brief description of TCG SED Opal
>
>
> Greg Joyce (3):
> block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_DISCOVERY
> block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_REVERT_LSP
> block: sed-opal: keyring support for SED keys
>
> block/Kconfig | 2 +
> block/opal_proto.h | 4 +
> block/sed-opal.c | 252
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/sed-opal.h | 5 +
> include/uapi/linux/sed-opal.h | 25 +++-
> 5 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 1341c7d2ccf42ed91aea80b8579d35bc1ea381e2
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