[v9,0/3] Another crack at a handshake upcall mechanism

Message

Chuck Lever April 13, 2023, 7:13 p.m. UTC

Hi-

Here is v9 of a series to add generic support for transport layer
security handshake on behalf of kernel socket consumers (user space
consumers use a security library directly, of course). A summary of
the purpose of these patches is archived here:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[e-mail]/

I'd like you to consider this series for v6.4.

The full patch set to support SunRPC with TLSv1.3 is available in
the topic-rpc-with-tls-upcall branch here, based on net-next/main:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git

This patch set includes support for in-transit confidentiality and
peer authentication for both the Linux NFS client and server.

A user space handshake agent for TLSv1.3 to go along with the kernel
patches is available in the "main" branch here:

https://github.com/oracle/ktls-utils

---

Changes since v8:
- Addressed Jakub's v8 review comments
- Fixed build problems with the new unit tests
- Addressed crashes in some corner case

Major changes since v7:
- Addressed Paolo's v7 review comments
- Added initial set of Kunit tests for the handshake API
- Included an NFS server patch to add new TLS_RECORD_TYPE values

Major changes since v6:
- YAML spec and generated artifacts are now under dual license
- Addressed Jakub's v6 review comments
- Implemented a memory-sensitive limit on the number of pending
 handshake requests
- Implemented upcall support for multiple peer identities

Major changes since v5:
- Added a "timeout" attribute to the handshake netlink protocol
- Removed the GnuTLS-specific "priorities" attribute
- Added support for keyrings to restrict access to keys
- Simplified the kernel consumer TLS handshake API
- The handshake netlink protocol can handle multiple peer IDs or
 certificates in the ACCEPT and DONE operations, though the
 implementation does not yet support it.

Major changes since v4:
- Rebased onto net-next/main
- Replaced req reference counting with ->sk_destruct
- CMD_ACCEPT now does the equivalent of a dup(2) rather than an
 accept(2)
- CMD_DONE no longer closes the user space socket endpoint
- handshake_req_cancel is now tested and working
- Added a YAML specification for the netlink upcall protocol, and
 simplified the protocol to fit the YAML schema
- Added an initial set of tracepoints

Changes since v3:
- Converted all netlink code to use Generic Netlink
- Reworked handshake request lifetime logic throughout
- Global pending list is now per-net
- On completion, return the remote's identity to the consumer

Changes since v2:
- PF_HANDSHAKE replaced with NETLINK_HANDSHAKE
- Replaced listen(2) / poll(2) with a multicast notification service
- Replaced accept(2) with a netlink operation that can return an
 open fd and handshake parameters
- Replaced close(2) with a netlink operation that can take arguments

Changes since RFC:
- Generic upcall support split away from kTLS
- Added support for TLS ServerHello
- Documentation has been temporarily removed while API churns

---

Chuck Lever (3):
      net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests
      net/handshake: Add a kernel API for requesting a TLSv1.3 handshake
      net/handshake: Add Kunit tests for the handshake consumer API


 Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml | 124 +++++
 Documentation/networking/index.rst         |   1 +
 Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst | 217 +++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                |  11 +
 include/net/handshake.h                    |  43 ++
 include/trace/events/handshake.h           | 159 +++++++
 include/uapi/linux/handshake.h             |  73 +++
 net/Kconfig                                |  20 +
 net/Makefile                               |   1 +
 net/handshake/.kunitconfig                 |  11 +
 net/handshake/Makefile                     |  13 +
 net/handshake/genl.c                       |  58 +++
 net/handshake/genl.h                       |  24 +
 net/handshake/handshake-test.c             | 523 +++++++++++++++++++++
 net/handshake/handshake.h                  |  81 ++++
 net/handshake/netlink.c                    | 332 +++++++++++++
 net/handshake/request.c                    | 345 ++++++++++++++
 net/handshake/tlshd.c                      | 417 ++++++++++++++++
 net/handshake/trace.c                      |  20 +
 19 files changed, 2473 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml
 create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
 create mode 100644 include/net/handshake.h
 create mode 100644 include/trace/events/handshake.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/handshake.h
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/.kunitconfig
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/Makefile
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/genl.c
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/genl.h
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/handshake-test.c
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/handshake.h
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/netlink.c
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/request.c
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/tlshd.c
 create mode 100644 net/handshake/trace.c

--
Chuck Lever