Add documentation for the tcp ULP tls interface. Signed-off-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/networking/tls.txt | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/tls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls.txt b/Documentation/networking/tls.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bfb256 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +Overview +======== + +Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) that runs over +TCP. TLS provides end-to-end data integrity and confidentiality. + +User interface +============== + +Creating a TLS connection +------------------------- + +First create a new TCP socket and set the TLS ULP. + + sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); + setsockopt(sock, SOL_TCP, TCP_ULP, "tls", sizeof("tls")); + +Setting the TLS ULP allows us to set/get TLS socket options. Currently +only the symmetric encryption is handled in the kernel. After the TLS +handshake is complete, we have all the parameters required to move the +data-path to the kernel. There is a separate socket option for moving +the transmit and the receive into the kernel. + + /* From linux/tls.h */ + struct tls_crypto_info { + unsigned short version; + unsigned short cipher_type; + }; + + struct tls12_crypto_info_aes_gcm_128 { + struct tls_crypto_info info; + unsigned char iv[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_IV_SIZE]; + unsigned char key[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_KEY_SIZE]; + unsigned char salt[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_SALT_SIZE]; + unsigned char rec_seq[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_REC_SEQ_SIZE]; + }; + + + struct tls12_crypto_info_aes_gcm_128 crypto_info; + + crypto_info.info.version = TLS_1_2_VERSION; + crypto_info.info.cipher_type = TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128; + memcpy(crypto_info.iv, iv_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_IV_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.rec_seq, seq_number_write, + TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_REC_SEQ_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.key, cipher_key_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_KEY_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.salt, implicit_iv_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_SALT_SIZE); + + setsockopt(sock, SOL_TLS, TLS_TX, &crypto_info, sizeof(crypto_info)); + +Sending TLS application data +---------------------------- + +After setting the TLS_TX socket option all application data sent over this +socket is encrypted using TLS and the parameters provided in the socket option. +For example, we can send an encrypted hello world record as follows: + + const char *msg = "hello world\n"; + send(sock, msg, strlen(msg)); + +send() data is directly encrypted from the userspace buffer provided +to the encrypted kernel send buffer if possible. + +The sendfile system call will send the file's data over TLS records of maximum +length (2^14). + + file = open(filename, O_RDONLY); + fstat(file, &stat); + sendfile(sock, file, &offset, stat.st_size); + +TLS records are created and sent after each send() call, unless +MSG_MORE is passed. MSG_MORE will delay creation of a record until +MSG_MORE is not passed, or the maximum record size is reached. + +The kernel will need to allocate a buffer for the encrypted data. +This buffer is allocated at the time send() is called, such that +either the entire send() call will return -ENOMEM (or block waiting +for memory), or the encryption will always succeed. If send() returns +-ENOMEM and some data was left on the socket buffer from a previous +call using MSG_MORE, the MSG_MORE data is left on the socket buffer. + +Send TLS control messages +------------------------- + +Other than application data, TLS has control messages such as alert +messages (record type 21) and handshake messages (record type 22), etc. +These messages can be sent over the socket by providing the TLS record type +via a CMSG. For example the following function sends @data of @length bytes +using a record of type @record_type. + +/* send TLS control message using record_type */ + static int klts_send_ctrl_message(int sock, unsigned char record_type, + void *data, size_t length) + { + struct msghdr msg = {0}; + int cmsg_len = sizeof(record_type); + struct cmsghdr *cmsg; + char buf[CMSG_SPACE(cmsg_len)]; + struct iovec msg_iov; /* Vector of data to send/receive into. */ + + msg.msg_control = buf; + msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf); + cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); + cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_TLS; + cmsg->cmsg_type = TLS_SET_RECORD_TYPE; + cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(cmsg_len); + *CMSG_DATA(cmsg) = record_type; + msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len; + + msg_iov.iov_base = data; + msg_iov.iov_len = length; + msg.msg_iov = &msg_iov; + msg.msg_iovlen = 1; + + return sendmsg(sock, &msg, 0); + } + +Control message data should be provided unencrypted, and will be +encrypted by the kernel. At a high level, the kernel TLS ULP is a +replacement for the record layer of a userspace TLS library. -- 2.9.3