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Introduce blk_ksm_update_capabilities() to update the capabilities of a keyslot manager (ksm) in-place. The pointer to a ksm in a device's request queue may not be easily replaced, because upper layers like the filesystem might access it (e.g. for programming keys/checking capabilities) at the same time the device wants to replace that request queue's ksm (and free the old ksm's memory). This function allows the device to update the capabilities of the ksm in its request queue directly. Devices can safely update the ksm this way without any synchronization with upper layers *only* if the updated (new) ksm continues to support all the crypto capabilities that the old ksm did (see description below for blk_ksm_is_superset() for why this is so). Also introduce blk_ksm_is_superset() which checks whether one ksm's capabilities are a (not necessarily strict) superset of another ksm's. The blk-crypto framework requires that crypto capabilities that were advertised when a bio was created continue to be supported by the device until that bio is ended - in practice this probably means that a device's advertised crypto capabilities can *never* "shrink" (since there's no synchronization between bio creation and when a device may want to change its advertised capabilities) - so a previously advertised crypto capability must always continue to be supported. This function can be used to check that a new ksm is a valid replacement for an old ksm. Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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