of security protocol operations offloaded to hardware based devices. The
library defines generic APIs to create and free security sessions which can
support full protocol offload as well as inline crypto operation with
-NIC or crypto devices. The framework currently only supports the IPsec and PDCP
-protocol and associated operations, other protocols will be added in future.
+NIC or crypto devices. The framework currently only supports the IPsec, PDCP
+and DOCSIS protocols and associated operations, other protocols will be added
+in the future.
Design Principles
-----------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_CRYPTO:
-The crypto processing for security protocol (e.g. IPSec) is processed
+The crypto processing for security protocol (e.g. IPsec) is processed
inline during receive and transmission on NIC port. The flow based
security action should be configured on the port.
crypto status is set in Rx descriptors. After the successful inline
crypto processing the packet is presented to host as a regular Rx packet
however all security protocol related headers are still attached to the
-packet. e.g. In case of IPSec, the IPSec tunnel headers (if any),
+packet. e.g. In case of IPsec, the IPsec tunnel headers (if any),
ESP/AH headers will remain in the packet but the received packet
contains the decrypted data where the encrypted data was when the packet
-arrived. The driver Rx path check the descriptors and and based on the
+arrived. The driver Rx path check the descriptors and based on the
crypto status sets additional flags in the rte_mbuf.ol_flags field.
.. note::
relevant security protocol headers. Only the data will not be
encrypted by the software. The driver will accordingly configure the
tx descriptors. The hardware device will encrypt the data before sending the
-the packet out.
+packet out.
.. note::
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_PROTOCOL:
-The crypto and protocol processing for security protocol (e.g. IPSec)
+The crypto and protocol processing for security protocol (e.g. IPsec)
is processed inline during receive and transmission. The flow based
security action should be configured on the port.
crypto status is set in the Rx descriptors. After the successful inline
crypto processing the packet is presented to the host as a regular Rx packet
but all security protocol related headers are optionally removed from the
-packet. e.g. in the case of IPSec, the IPSec tunnel headers (if any),
+packet. e.g. in the case of IPsec, the IPsec tunnel headers (if any),
ESP/AH headers will be removed from the packet and the received packet
will contains the decrypted packet only. The driver Rx path checks the
descriptors and based on the crypto status sets additional flags in
The underlying device in this case is stateful. It is expected that
the device shall support crypto processing for all kind of packets matching
to a given flow, this includes fragmented packets (post reassembly).
- E.g. in case of IPSec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
+ E.g. in case of IPsec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
It will provide a configuration option for anti-replay behavior i.e. to drop
the packets or pass them to driver with error flags set in the descriptor.
.. note::
The underlying device will manage state information required for egress
- processing. E.g. in case of IPSec, the seq number will be added to the
+ processing. E.g. in case of IPsec, the seq number will be added to the
packet, however the device shall provide indication when the sequence number
is about to overflow. The underlying device may support post encryption TSO.
Decryption: The packet is sent to the crypto device for security
protocol processing. The device will decrypt the packet and it will also
optionally remove additional security headers from the packet.
-E.g. in case of IPSec, IPSec tunnel headers (if any), ESP/AH headers
+E.g. in case of IPsec, IPsec tunnel headers (if any), ESP/AH headers
will be removed from the packet and the decrypted packet may contain
plain data only.
.. note::
- In case of IPSec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
+ In case of IPsec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
It will provide a configuration option for anti-replay behavior i.e. to drop
the packets or pass them to driver with error flags set in descriptor.
.. note::
- In the case of IPSec, the seq number will be added to the packet,
+ In the case of IPsec, the seq number will be added to the packet,
It shall provide an indication when the sequence number is about to
overflow.
de-cipher, integrity protection/verification is done based on the action
type chosen.
+DOCSIS Protocol
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) support comprises
+the combination of encryption/decryption and CRC generation/verification, for
+use in a DOCSIS-MAC pipeline.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+
+ Downlink Uplink
+ -------- ------
+
+ Ethernet frame Ethernet frame
+ from core network to core network
+ | ^
+ ~ |
+ | ~ ----+
+ V | |
+ +---------|----------+ +----------|---------+ |
+ | CRC generation | | CRC verification | |
+ +---------|----------+ +----------|---------+ | combined
+ | | > Crypto + CRC
+ +---------|----------+ +----------|---------+ |
+ | Encryption | | Decryption | |
+ +---------|----------+ +----------|---------+ |
+ | ^ |
+ ~ | ----+
+ | ~
+ V |
+ DOCSIS frame DOCSIS frame
+ to Cable Modem from Cable Modem
+
+The encryption/decryption is a combination of CBC and CFB modes using either AES
+or DES algorithms as specified in the DOCSIS Security Specification (from DPDK
+lib_rtecryptodev perspective, these are RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI and
+RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_DES_DOCSISBPI).
+
+The CRC is Ethernet CRC-32 as specified in Ethernet/[ISO/IEC 8802-3].
+
+.. note::
+
+ * The offset and length of data for which CRC needs to be computed are
+ specified via the auth offset and length fields of the rte_crypto_sym_op.
+ * Other DOCSIS protocol functionality such as Header Checksum (HCS)
+ calculation may be added in the future.
+
Device Features and Capabilities
---------------------------------
}
}
+Below is an example of the capabilities for a PMD which supports the DOCSIS
+protocol.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static const struct rte_security_capability pmd_security_capabilities[] = {
+ { /* DOCSIS Uplink */
+ .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
+ .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
+ .docsis = {
+ .direction = RTE_SECURITY_DOCSIS_UPLINK
+ },
+ .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
+ },
+ { /* DOCSIS Downlink */
+ .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
+ .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
+ .docsis = {
+ .direction = RTE_SECURITY_DOCSIS_DOWNLINK
+ },
+ .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
+ },
+ {
+ .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_NONE
+ }
+ };
+ static const struct rte_cryptodev_capabilities pmd_capabilities[] = {
+ { /* AES DOCSIS BPI */
+ .op = RTE_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_SYMMETRIC,
+ .sym = {
+ .xform_type = RTE_CRYPTO_SYM_XFORM_CIPHER,
+ .cipher = {
+ .algo = RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI,
+ .block_size = 16,
+ .key_size = {
+ .min = 16,
+ .max = 32,
+ .increment = 16
+ },
+ .iv_size = {
+ .min = 16,
+ .max = 16,
+ .increment = 0
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ },
+
+ RTE_CRYPTODEV_END_OF_CAPABILITIES_LIST()
+ };
Capabilities Discovery
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
struct rte_security_ipsec_xform ipsec;
struct rte_security_macsec_xform macsec;
struct rte_security_pdcp_xform pdcp;
+ struct rte_security_docsis_xform docsis;
};
/**< Configuration parameters for security session */
struct rte_crypto_sym_xform *crypto_xform;
/**< No security actions */
RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_CRYPTO,
/**< Crypto processing for security protocol is processed inline
- * during transmission */
+ * during transmission
+ */
RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_PROTOCOL,
/**< All security protocol processing is performed inline during
- * transmission */
- RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL
+ * transmission
+ */
+ RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
/**< All security protocol processing including crypto is performed
- * on a lookaside accelerator */
+ * on a lookaside accelerator
+ */
+ RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_CPU_CRYPTO
+ /**< Similar to ACTION_TYPE_NONE but crypto processing for security
+ * protocol is processed synchronously by a CPU.
+ */
};
The ``rte_security_session_protocol`` is defined as
/**< MACSec Protocol */
RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_PDCP,
/**< PDCP Protocol */
+ RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
+ /**< DOCSIS Protocol */
};
Currently the library defines configuration parameters for IPsec and PDCP only.
struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options options;
/**< various SA options */
enum rte_security_ipsec_sa_direction direction;
- /**< IPSec SA Direction - Egress/Ingress */
+ /**< IPsec SA Direction - Egress/Ingress */
enum rte_security_ipsec_sa_protocol proto;
/**< IPsec SA Protocol - AH/ESP */
enum rte_security_ipsec_sa_mode mode;
uint32_t hfn_threshold;
};
+DOCSIS related configuration parameters are defined in ``rte_security_docsis_xform``
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ struct rte_security_docsis_xform {
+ enum rte_security_docsis_direction direction;
+ /**< DOCSIS direction */
+ };
+
Security API
~~~~~~~~~~~~
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