[PATCH v4 RESEND 0/3] sed-opal: keyrings, discovery, revert, key store

[Jens Axboe]

On 6/1/23 4:37 PM, 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. I believe that
> this patchset is 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 v4:
>         - rebase to 6.3-rc7
> 	- replaced "255" magic number with U8_MAX

None of this applies for for-6.5/block, and I'm a little puzzled
as to why you'd rebase to an old kernel rather than a 6.4-rc at
least?

Please resend one that is current.

-- 
Jens Axboe