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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-05-01 17:44:29 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-05-01 22:24:40 +0300
commitc4a0eb9350183d1d188793c534e4141bcf2ccea8 (patch)
tree32bde32c74d9e843811ca3aabb4ce307c38102ab
parentc4ea03fdfd122b4ff293bff643c2369852e9cc1c (diff)
downloadlinux-c4a0eb9350183d1d188793c534e4141bcf2ccea8.tar.xz
docs: networking: convert xfrm_device.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.txt)33
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index 75521e6c473b..e31f6cb564b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Contents:
vxlan
x25-iface
x25
+ xfrm_device
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.txt b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst
index a1c904dc70dc..da1073acda96 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===============================================
XFRM device - offloading the IPsec computations
===============================================
+
Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ hardware offload.
Userland access to the offload is typically through a system such as
libreswan or KAME/raccoon, but the iproute2 'ip xfrm' command set can
be handy when experimenting. An example command might look something
-like this:
+like this::
ip x s add proto esp dst 14.0.0.70 src 14.0.0.52 spi 0x07 mode transport \
reqid 0x07 replay-window 32 \
@@ -34,15 +36,17 @@ Yes, that's ugly, but that's what shell scripts and/or libreswan are for.
Callbacks to implement
======================
-/* from include/linux/netdevice.h */
-struct xfrmdev_ops {
+::
+
+ /* from include/linux/netdevice.h */
+ struct xfrmdev_ops {
int (*xdo_dev_state_add) (struct xfrm_state *x);
void (*xdo_dev_state_delete) (struct xfrm_state *x);
void (*xdo_dev_state_free) (struct xfrm_state *x);
bool (*xdo_dev_offload_ok) (struct sk_buff *skb,
struct xfrm_state *x);
void (*xdo_dev_state_advance_esn) (struct xfrm_state *x);
-};
+ };
The NIC driver offering ipsec offload will need to implement these
callbacks to make the offload available to the network stack's
@@ -58,6 +62,8 @@ At probe time and before the call to register_netdev(), the driver should
set up local data structures and XFRM callbacks, and set the feature bits.
The XFRM code's listener will finish the setup on NETDEV_REGISTER.
+::
+
adapter->netdev->xfrmdev_ops = &ixgbe_xfrmdev_ops;
adapter->netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_ESP;
adapter->netdev->hw_enc_features |= NETIF_F_HW_ESP;
@@ -65,16 +71,20 @@ The XFRM code's listener will finish the setup on NETDEV_REGISTER.
When new SAs are set up with a request for "offload" feature, the
driver's xdo_dev_state_add() will be given the new SA to be offloaded
and an indication of whether it is for Rx or Tx. The driver should
+
- verify the algorithm is supported for offloads
- store the SA information (key, salt, target-ip, protocol, etc)
- enable the HW offload of the SA
- return status value:
+
+ =========== ===================================
0 success
-EOPNETSUPP offload not supported, try SW IPsec
other fail the request
+ =========== ===================================
The driver can also set an offload_handle in the SA, an opaque void pointer
-that can be used to convey context into the fast-path offload requests.
+that can be used to convey context into the fast-path offload requests::
xs->xso.offload_handle = context;
@@ -88,7 +98,7 @@ return true of false to signify its support.
When ready to send, the driver needs to inspect the Tx packet for the
offload information, including the opaque context, and set up the packet
-send accordingly.
+send accordingly::
xs = xfrm_input_state(skb);
context = xs->xso.offload_handle;
@@ -105,18 +115,21 @@ the packet's skb. At this point the data should be decrypted but the
IPsec headers are still in the packet data; they are removed later up
the stack in xfrm_input().
- find and hold the SA that was used to the Rx skb
+ find and hold the SA that was used to the Rx skb::
+
get spi, protocol, and destination IP from packet headers
xs = find xs from (spi, protocol, dest_IP)
xfrm_state_hold(xs);
- store the state information into the skb
+ store the state information into the skb::
+
sp = secpath_set(skb);
if (!sp) return;
sp->xvec[sp->len++] = xs;
sp->olen++;
- indicate the success and/or error status of the offload
+ indicate the success and/or error status of the offload::
+
xo = xfrm_offload(skb);
xo->flags = CRYPTO_DONE;
xo->status = crypto_status;
@@ -136,5 +149,3 @@ hardware needs.
As a netdev is set to DOWN the XFRM stack's netdev listener will call
xdo_dev_state_delete() and xdo_dev_state_free() on any remaining offloaded
states.
-
-