svn commit: r368005 - in head: lib/libprocstat share/man/man4 sys/opencrypto sys/sys tools/tools/crypto usr.bin/procstat

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 25 00:15:30 UTC 2020


On 11/24/20 4:10 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Wed Nov 25 00:10:54 2020
> New Revision: 368005
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368005
> 
> Log:
>   Remove the cloned file descriptors for /dev/crypto.
>   
>   Crypto file descriptors were added in the original OCF import as a way
>   to provide per-open data (specifically the list of symmetric
>   sessions).  However, this gives a bit of a confusing API where one has
>   to open /dev/crypto and then invoke an ioctl to obtain a second file
>   descriptor.  This also does not match the API used with /dev/crypto on
>   other BSDs or with Linux's /dev/crypto driver.
>   
>   Character devices have gained support for per-open data via cdevpriv
>   since OCF was imported, so use cdevpriv to simplify the userland API
>   by permitting ioctls directly on /dev/crypto descriptors.
>   
>   To provide backwards compatibility, CRIOGET now opens another
>   /dev/crypto descriptor via kern_openat() rather than dup'ing the
>   existing file descriptor.  This preserves prior semantics in case
>   CRIOGET is invoked multiple times on a single file descriptor.
>   
>   Reviewed by:	markj
>   Relnotes:	yes
>   Sponsored by:	Chelsio Communications
>   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27302

This also allows the devcrypto engine in OpenSSL 1.1.1 to work since it
doesn't know about CRIOGET at all (though I have an open PR to teach
OpenSSL about CRIOGET so that it will work again on older branches here:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13468

-- 
John Baldwin


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