[PATCH 0/3] security: support MACsec
Akhil Goyal
gakhil at marvell.com
Sun Aug 14 20:46:17 CEST 2022
Added support for MACsec in rte_security for offloading
MACsec Protocol operation to inline NIC device or a crypto device.
To support MACsec we cannot just make one security session and
send with the packet to process it. MACsec specifications suggest,
it can have 3 different entities - SECY Entity, SC(secure channel) and
SA(security association). And same SA can be used by multiple SCs and
similarly many SECY can have same SCs. Hence, in order to support this
many to one relationships between all entities, 2 new APIs are created -
rte_security_macsec_sc_create and rte_security_sa_create.
Flow of execution of the APIs would be as
- rte_security_macsec_sa_create
- rte_security_macsec_sc_create
- rte_security_session_create(for secy)
And in case of inline protocol processing rte_flow can be created with
rte_security action similar to IPsec flows except that the flow item
will be MACsec instead of IPsec.
A new flow item is added for MACsec header and a set of events are added
to specify the errors occurred during inline protocol processing.
New APIs are also created for getting SC and SA stats.
Akhil Goyal (3):
net: add MACsec header
security: support MACsec
ethdev: add MACsec flow item
doc/api/doxy-api-index.md | 3 +-
doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_security.rst | 107 +++++++-
lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 55 ++++
lib/ethdev/rte_flow.h | 18 ++
lib/net/meson.build | 1 +
lib/net/rte_macsec.h | 56 ++++
lib/security/rte_security.c | 86 ++++++
lib/security/rte_security.h | 362 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
lib/security/rte_security_driver.h | 86 ++++++
lib/security/version.map | 6 +
10 files changed, 766 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 lib/net/rte_macsec.h
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2.25.1
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