[PATCH v5 0/3 RESEND] sed-opal: keyrings, discovery, revert, key store
Greg Joyce
gjoyce at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 22 01:26:55 AEST 2023
On Wed, 2023-08-16 at 23:41 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed Aug 16, 2023 at 10:45 PM EEST, Greg Joyce wrote:
> > 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
>
> I can give because it looks good to me to all patches:
>
> Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org>
>
> ... but should not probably go to my tree.
>
> BR, Jarkko
Thanks for the ack Jarkko. Any thoughts on which tree it should go to?
Greg
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