Re: [PATCH 0/4] sed-opal: keyrings, discovery, revert and key store

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 04:01:52PM -0500, gjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Greg Joyce <gjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The current TCG 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 Opal 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.


Please explain also what SED Opal is.

> 
> Extend the SED block driver 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
> 
> Also, for platforms that have a permanent key store, the
> platform may provide unique platform dependent functions
> to read/write variables. The SED block driver has been
> modified to attempt to read a key from the platform key
> store. If successful, the key value is saved in the kernel
> sed-opal keyring. If the platform does not support a
> permanent key store, the read will fail and a key will
> not be added to the keyring. This patchset does not include
> any providers of the variable read/write functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Joyce <gjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> base-commit: ff6992735ade75aae3e35d16b17da1008d753d28
> 
> Greg Joyce (4):
>   block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_DISCOVERY
>   block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_REVERT_LSP
>   block: sed-opal: keyring support for SED Opal keys
>   arch_vars: create arch specific permanent store
> 
>  block/Kconfig                 |   1 +
>  block/opal_proto.h            |   4 +
>  block/sed-opal.c              | 274 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/arch_vars.h     |  23 +++
>  include/linux/sed-opal.h      |   5 +
>  include/uapi/linux/sed-opal.h |  24 ++-
>  lib/Makefile                  |   2 +-
>  lib/arch_vars.c               |  25 ++++
>  8 files changed, 351 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/arch_vars.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/arch_vars.c
> 
> 
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 

BR, Jarkko



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