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authorEric Biggers2021-01-21 00:21:54 -0800
committerUlf Hansson2021-02-01 11:56:18 +0100
commit5851d3b042b694839d2241fbb3200ce958135cdf (patch)
treec399d0eeeca923f0e72458fa24d929f3fd751edd /Documentation/block
parent4af307f574260cb1b768be84c81ce572da7a84ea (diff)
block/keyslot-manager: introduce devm_blk_ksm_init()
Add a resource-managed variant of blk_ksm_init() so that drivers don't have to worry about calling blk_ksm_destroy(). Note that the implementation uses a custom devres action to call blk_ksm_destroy() rather than switching the two allocations to be directly devres-managed, e.g. with devm_kmalloc(). This is because we need to keep zeroing the memory containing the keyslots when it is freed, and also because we want to continue using kvmalloc() (and there is no devm_kvmalloc()). Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121082155.111333-2-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst b/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
index e75151e467d3..7f9b40d6b416 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
@@ -182,8 +182,9 @@ API presented to device drivers
A :c:type:``struct blk_keyslot_manager`` should be set up by device drivers in
the ``request_queue`` of the device. The device driver needs to call
-``blk_ksm_init`` on the ``blk_keyslot_manager``, which specifying the number of
-keyslots supported by the hardware.
+``blk_ksm_init`` (or its resource-managed variant ``devm_blk_ksm_init``) on the
+``blk_keyslot_manager``, while specifying the number of keyslots supported by
+the hardware.
The device driver also needs to tell the KSM how to actually manipulate the
IE hardware in the device to do things like programming the crypto key into
@@ -202,10 +203,9 @@ needs each and every of its keyslots to be reprogrammed with the key it
"should have" at the point in time when the function is called. This is useful
e.g. if a device loses all its keys on runtime power down/up.
-``blk_ksm_destroy`` should be called to free up all resources used by a keyslot
-manager upon ``blk_ksm_init``, once the ``blk_keyslot_manager`` is no longer
-needed.
-
+If the driver used ``blk_ksm_init`` instead of ``devm_blk_ksm_init``, then
+``blk_ksm_destroy`` should be called to free up all resources used by a
+``blk_keyslot_manager`` once it is no longer needed.
Layered Devices
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