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| author | Satya Tangirala | 2020-05-14 00:37:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe | 2020-05-14 09:48:03 -0600 |
| commit | 488f6682c832e9549d28b30075f00c76328eb1be (patch) | |
| tree | da8aeb7ca2c295811a9b3cc209470064cec5fe75 /block/Kconfig | |
| parent | d145dc23030bbf2de3a8ca5e0c29c2e568f69737 (diff) | |
block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline Encryption
Blk-crypto delegates crypto operations to inline encryption hardware
when available. The separately configurable blk-crypto-fallback contains
a software fallback to the kernel crypto API - when enabled, blk-crypto
will use this fallback for en/decryption when inline encryption hardware
is not available.
This lets upper layers not have to worry about whether or not the
underlying device has support for inline encryption before deciding to
specify an encryption context for a bio. It also allows for testing
without actual inline encryption hardware - in particular, it makes it
possible to test the inline encryption code in ext4 and f2fs simply by
running xfstests with the inlinecrypt mount option, which in turn allows
for things like the regular upstream regression testing of ext4 to cover
the inline encryption code paths.
For more details, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index f8870c316a03..9382a4acefc3 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -193,6 +193,16 @@ config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION block layer handle encryption, so users can take advantage of inline encryption hardware if present. +config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK + bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto" + depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION + select CRYPTO + select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER + help + Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption + by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline + encryption hardware is not present. + menu "Partition Types" source "block/partitions/Kconfig" |