mirror_zfs/module/os/freebsd
Mark Johnston e7adccf7f5
FreeBSD: disable the use of hardware crypto offload drivers for now
First, the crypto request completion handler contains a bug in that it
fails to reset fs_done correctly after the request is completed.  This
is only a problem for asynchronous drivers.  Second, some hardware
drivers have input constraints which ZFS does not satisfy.  For
instance, ccp(4) apparently requires the AAD length for AES-GCM to be a
multiple of the cipher block size, and with qat(4) the AES-GCM AAD
length may not be longer than 240 bytes.  FreeBSD's generic crypto
framework doesn't have a mechanism to automatically fall back to a
software implementation if a hardware driver cannot process a request,
and ZFS does not tolerate such errors.

The plan is to implement such a fallback mechanism, but with FreeBSD
13.0 approaching we should simply disable the use hardware drivers for
now.

Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
Closes #11612
2021-02-18 15:51:20 -08:00
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spl FreeBSD: upstream changes to VFS interface 2021-01-23 15:40:43 -08:00
zfs FreeBSD: disable the use of hardware crypto offload drivers for now 2021-02-18 15:51:20 -08:00