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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-07-05 16:59:24 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-07-06 12:56:35 +0100
commit88527790c079fb1ea41cbcfa4450ee37906a2fb0 (patch)
treeabf64848744f5edeed09b97460562add63d79ad8 /Documentation/networking
parentce61327ce989b63c0bd1cc7afee00e218ee696ac (diff)
tls: rx: add sockopt for enabling optimistic decrypt with TLS 1.3
Since optimisitic decrypt may add extra load in case of retries require socket owner to explicitly opt-in. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls.rst
index be8e10c14b05..7a6643836e42 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls.rst
@@ -239,6 +239,19 @@ for the original TCP transmission and TCP retransmissions. To the receiver
this will look like TLS records had been tampered with and will result
in record authentication failures.
+TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TLS 1.3 only. Expect the sender to not pad records. This allows the data
+to be decrypted directly into user space buffers with TLS 1.3.
+
+This optimization is safe to enable only if the remote end is trusted,
+otherwise it is an attack vector to doubling the TLS processing cost.
+
+If the record decrypted turns out to had been padded or is not a data
+record it will be decrypted again into a kernel buffer without zero copy.
+Such events are counted in the ``TlsDecryptRetry`` statistic.
+
Statistics
==========
@@ -264,3 +277,8 @@ TLS implementation exposes the following per-namespace statistics
- ``TlsDeviceRxResync`` -
number of RX resyncs sent to NICs handling cryptography
+
+- ``TlsDecryptRetry`` -
+ number of RX records which had to be re-decrypted due to
+ ``TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD`` mis-prediction. Note that this counter will
+ also increment for non-data records.