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
-----------------
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::
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.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~