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Author SHA1 Message Date
Colin Ian King e7ecc142e9 block: blk-crypto-fallback: remove redundant initialization of variable err
The variable err is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-05-27 05:41:59 -06:00
Satya Tangirala 488f6682c8 block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline Encryption
Blk-crypto delegates crypto operations to inline encryption hardware
when available. The separately configurable blk-crypto-fallback contains
a software fallback to the kernel crypto API - when enabled, blk-crypto
will use this fallback for en/decryption when inline encryption hardware
is not available.

This lets upper layers not have to worry about whether or not the
underlying device has support for inline encryption before deciding to
specify an encryption context for a bio. It also allows for testing
without actual inline encryption hardware - in particular, it makes it
possible to test the inline encryption code in ext4 and f2fs simply by
running xfstests with the inlinecrypt mount option, which in turn allows
for things like the regular upstream regression testing of ext4 to cover
the inline encryption code paths.

For more details, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.

Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-05-14 09:48:03 -06:00