Re: [PATCH 4/5] blk-crypto: rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile

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On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 03:35, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> blk_keyslot_manager is misnamed because it doesn't necessarily manage
> keyslots.  It actually does several different things:
>
>   - Contains the crypto capabilities of the device.
>
>   - Provides functions to control the inline encryption hardware.
>     Originally these were just for programming/evicting keyslots;
>     however, new functionality (hardware-wrapped keys) will require new
>     functions here which are unrelated to keyslots.  Moreover,
>     device-mapper devices already (ab)use "keyslot_evict" to pass key
>     eviction requests to their underlying devices even though
>     device-mapper devices don't have any keyslots themselves (so it
>     really should be "evict_key", not "keyslot_evict").
>
>   - Sometimes (but not always!) it manages keyslots.  Originally it
>     always did, but device-mapper devices don't have keyslots
>     themselves, so they use a "passthrough keyslot manager" which
>     doesn't actually manage keyslots.  This hack works, but the
>     terminology is unnatural.  Also, some hardware doesn't have keyslots
>     and thus also uses a "passthrough keyslot manager" (support for such
>     hardware is yet to be upstreamed, but it will happen eventually).
>
> Let's stop having keyslot managers which don't actually manage keyslots.
> Instead, rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile.
>
> This is a fairly big change, since for consistency it also has to update
> keyslot manager-related function names, variable names, and comments --
> not just the actual struct name.  However it's still a fairly
> straightforward change, as it doesn't change any actual functionality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/blk-crypto-fallback.c        |  60 ++--
>  block/blk-crypto-profile.c         | 518 ++++++++++++++---------------
>  block/blk-crypto.c                 |  25 +-
>  block/blk-integrity.c              |   2 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-core.h               |   2 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-table.c              | 168 +++++-----
>  drivers/md/dm.c                    |   8 +-
>  drivers/mmc/core/crypto.c          |  11 +-
>  drivers/mmc/host/cqhci-crypto.c    |  31 +-
>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd-crypto.c   |  32 +-
>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd-crypto.h   |   9 +-
>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c          |   2 +-
>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.h          |   4 +-
>  include/linux/blk-crypto-profile.h | 164 +++++----
>  include/linux/blkdev.h             |  18 +-
>  include/linux/device-mapper.h      |   4 +-
>  include/linux/mmc/host.h           |   2 +-
>  17 files changed, 548 insertions(+), 512 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> # For MMC

[...]

Kind regards
Uffe



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