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author | Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> | 2018-03-22 10:10:44 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-03-23 12:25:54 -0400 |
commit | b6c535b1638b32ff7817d78956b7232100570b5d (patch) | |
tree | 8aea833d31b3c82d08a899c74b8c520ee096239e /Documentation/networking/tls.txt | |
parent | c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 (diff) | |
download | linux-b6c535b1638b32ff7817d78956b7232100570b5d.tar.bz2 |
tls: Add receive path documentation
Add documentation on rx path setup and cmsg interface.
Signed-off-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/tls.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tls.txt | 66 |
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls.txt b/Documentation/networking/tls.txt index 77ed00631c12..58b5ef75f1b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tls.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls.txt @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ the transmit and the receive into the kernel. setsockopt(sock, SOL_TLS, TLS_TX, &crypto_info, sizeof(crypto_info)); +Transmit and receive are set separately, but the setup is the same, using either +TLS_TX or TLS_RX. + Sending TLS application data ---------------------------- @@ -79,6 +82,28 @@ 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. +Receiving TLS application data +------------------------------ + +After setting the TLS_RX socket option, all recv family socket calls +are decrypted using TLS parameters provided. A full TLS record must +be received before decryption can happen. + + char buffer[16384]; + recv(sock, buffer, 16384); + +Received data is decrypted directly in to the user buffer if it is +large enough, and no additional allocations occur. If the userspace +buffer is too small, data is decrypted in the kernel and copied to +userspace. + +EINVAL is returned if the TLS version in the received message does not +match the version passed in setsockopt. + +EMSGSIZE is returned if the received message is too big. + +EBADMSG is returned if decryption failed for any other reason. + Send TLS control messages ------------------------- @@ -118,6 +143,43 @@ using a record of type @record_type. Control message data should be provided unencrypted, and will be encrypted by the kernel. +Receiving TLS control messages +------------------------------ + +TLS control messages are passed in the userspace buffer, with message +type passed via cmsg. If no cmsg buffer is provided, an error is +returned if a control message is received. Data messages may be +received without a cmsg buffer set. + + char buffer[16384]; + char cmsg[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(unsigned char))]; + struct msghdr msg = {0}; + msg.msg_control = cmsg; + msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(cmsg); + + struct iovec msg_iov; + msg_iov.iov_base = buffer; + msg_iov.iov_len = 16384; + + msg.msg_iov = &msg_iov; + msg.msg_iovlen = 1; + + int ret = recvmsg(sock, &msg, 0 /* flags */); + + struct cmsghdr *cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); + if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_TLS && + cmsg->cmsg_type == TLS_GET_RECORD_TYPE) { + int record_type = *((unsigned char *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg)); + // Do something with record_type, and control message data in + // buffer. + // + // Note that record_type may be == to application data (23). + } else { + // Buffer contains application data. + } + +recv will never return data from mixed types of TLS records. + Integrating in to userspace TLS library --------------------------------------- @@ -126,10 +188,10 @@ layer of a userspace TLS library. A patchset to OpenSSL to use ktls as the record layer is here: -https://github.com/Mellanox/tls-openssl +https://github.com/Mellanox/openssl/commits/tls_rx2 An example of calling send directly after a handshake using gnutls. Since it doesn't implement a full record layer, control messages are not supported: -https://github.com/Mellanox/tls-af_ktls_tool +https://github.com/ktls/af_ktls-tool/commits/RX |