Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] dm-inlinecrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys

Linlin Zhang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Milan, Eric and Mikulas,

Do you have a chance to help review this patch?

I'm appreciated if you can help give some comments or accept and help merge this patch.

Thanks,
Linlin

On 5/25/2026 8:13 PM, Linlin Zhang wrote:
> dm-inlinecrypt currently assumes that all keys are raw software keys.
> That does not work for platforms where inline encryption expects
> hardware-wrapped key material managed by secure firmware/hardware.
> 
> This series adds support for hardware-wrapped keys in dm-inlinecrypt by
> introducing an optional <key_type> target argument. The flag lets
> dm-inlinecrypt select the proper blk-crypto key type at key
> initialization time:
> 
> - 1: BLK_CRYPTO_KEY_TYPE_RAW
> - 2: BLK_CRYPTO_KEY_TYPE_HW_WRAPPED
> 
> With this change, dm-inlinecrypt can support both raw and wrapped key
> deployment models without hardcoding one key ownership model.
> The series also:
> - updates target argument parsing to include the new required flag
> - propagates the wrapped/raw state in target status output
> - updates dm-inlinecrypt documentation and examples accordingly
> Linlin Zhang (1):
>   dm-inlinecrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys
> 
>  .../device-mapper/dm-inlinecrypt.rst          | 20 +++---
>  drivers/md/dm-inlinecrypt.c                   | 63 ++++++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
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