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2    Copyright 2017,2020-2021 NXP
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4
5
6Security Library
7================
8
9The security library provides a framework for management and provisioning
10of security protocol operations offloaded to hardware based devices. The
11library defines generic APIs to create and free security sessions which can
12support full protocol offload as well as inline crypto operation with
13NIC or crypto devices. The framework currently only supports the IPsec, PDCP
14and DOCSIS protocols and associated operations, other protocols will be added
15in the future.
16
17Design Principles
18-----------------
19
20The security library provides an additional offload capability to an existing
21crypto device and/or ethernet device.
22
23.. code-block:: console
24
25               +---------------+
26               | rte_security  |
27               +---------------+
28                 \            /
29        +-----------+    +--------------+
30        |  NIC PMD  |    |  CRYPTO PMD  |
31        +-----------+    +--------------+
32
33.. note::
34
35    Currently, the security library does not support the case of multi-process.
36    It will be updated in the future releases.
37
38The supported offload types are explained in the sections below.
39
40Inline Crypto
41~~~~~~~~~~~~~
42
43RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_CRYPTO:
44The crypto processing for security protocol (e.g. IPsec) is processed
45inline during receive and transmission on NIC port. The flow based
46security action should be configured on the port.
47
48Ingress Data path - The packet is decrypted in RX path and relevant
49crypto status is set in Rx descriptors. After the successful inline
50crypto processing the packet is presented to host as a regular Rx packet
51however all security protocol related headers are still attached to the
52packet. e.g. In case of IPsec, the IPsec tunnel headers (if any),
53ESP/AH headers will remain in the packet but the received packet
54contains the decrypted data where the encrypted data was when the packet
55arrived. The driver Rx path check the descriptors and based on the
56crypto status sets additional flags in the rte_mbuf.ol_flags field.
57
58.. note::
59
60    The underlying device may not support crypto processing for all ingress packet
61    matching to a particular flow (e.g. fragmented packets), such packets will
62    be passed as encrypted packets. It is the responsibility of application to
63    process such encrypted packets using other crypto driver instance.
64
65Egress Data path - The software prepares the egress packet by adding
66relevant security protocol headers. Only the data will not be
67encrypted by the software. The driver will accordingly configure the
68tx descriptors. The hardware device will encrypt the data before sending the
69packet out.
70
71.. note::
72
73    The underlying device may support post encryption TSO.
74
75.. code-block:: console
76
77          Egress Data Path
78                 |
79        +--------|--------+
80        |  egress IPsec   |
81        |        |        |
82        | +------V------+ |
83        | | SADB lookup | |
84        | +------|------+ |
85        | +------V------+ |
86        | |   Tunnel    | |   <------ Add tunnel header to packet
87        | +------|------+ |
88        | +------V------+ |
89        | |     ESP     | |   <------ Add ESP header without trailer to packet
90        | |             | |   <------ Mark packet to be offloaded, add trailer
91        | +------|------+ |            meta-data to mbuf
92        +--------V--------+
93                 |
94        +--------V--------+
95        |    L2 Stack     |
96        +--------|--------+
97                 |
98        +--------V--------+
99        |                 |
100        |     NIC PMD     |   <------ Set hw context for inline crypto offload
101        |                 |
102        +--------|--------+
103                 |
104        +--------|--------+
105        |  HW ACCELERATED |   <------ Packet Encryption and
106        |        NIC      |           Authentication happens inline
107        |                 |
108        +-----------------+
109
110
111Inline protocol offload
112~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
113
114RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_PROTOCOL:
115The crypto and protocol processing for security protocol (e.g. IPsec)
116is processed inline during receive and transmission.  The flow based
117security action should be configured on the port.
118
119Ingress Data path - The packet is decrypted in the RX path and relevant
120crypto status is set in the Rx descriptors. After the successful inline
121crypto processing the packet is presented to the host as a regular Rx packet
122but all security protocol related headers are optionally removed from the
123packet. e.g. in the case of IPsec, the IPsec tunnel headers (if any),
124ESP/AH headers will be removed from the packet and the received packet
125will contains the decrypted packet only. The driver Rx path checks the
126descriptors and based on the crypto status sets additional flags in
127``rte_mbuf.ol_flags`` field. The driver would also set device-specific
128metadata in ``RTE_SECURITY_DYNFIELD_NAME`` field.
129This will allow the application to identify the security processing
130done on the packet.
131
132.. note::
133
134    The underlying device in this case is stateful. It is expected that
135    the device shall support crypto processing for all kind of packets matching
136    to a given flow, this includes fragmented packets (post reassembly).
137    E.g. in case of IPsec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
138    It will provide a configuration option for anti-replay behavior i.e. to drop
139    the packets or pass them to driver with error flags set in the descriptor.
140
141Egress Data path - The software will send the plain packet without any
142security protocol headers added to the packet. The driver will configure
143the security index and other requirement in tx descriptors.
144The hardware device will do security processing on the packet that includes
145adding the relevant protocol headers and encrypting the data before sending
146the packet out. The software should make sure that the buffer
147has required head room and tail room for any protocol header addition. The
148software may also do early fragmentation if the resultant packet is expected
149to cross the MTU size.
150
151
152.. note::
153
154    The underlying device will manage state information required for egress
155    processing. E.g. in case of IPsec, the seq number will be added to the
156    packet, however the device shall provide indication when the sequence number
157    is about to overflow. The underlying device may support post encryption TSO.
158
159.. code-block:: console
160
161         Egress Data Path
162                 |
163        +--------|--------+
164        |  egress IPsec   |
165        |        |        |
166        | +------V------+ |
167        | | SADB lookup | |
168        | +------|------+ |
169        | +------V------+ |
170        | |   Desc      | |   <------ Mark packet to be offloaded
171        | +------|------+ |
172        +--------V--------+
173                 |
174        +--------V--------+
175        |    L2 Stack     |
176        +--------|--------+
177                 |
178        +--------V--------+
179        |                 |
180        |     NIC PMD     |   <------ Set hw context for inline crypto offload
181        |                 |
182        +--------|--------+
183                 |
184        +--------|--------+
185        |  HW ACCELERATED |   <------ Add tunnel, ESP header etc header to
186        |        NIC      |           packet. Packet Encryption and
187        |                 |           Authentication happens inline.
188        +-----------------+
189
190
191Lookaside protocol offload
192~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
193
194RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL:
195This extends librte_cryptodev to support the programming of IPsec
196Security Association (SA) as part of a crypto session creation including
197the definition. In addition to standard crypto processing, as defined by
198the cryptodev, the security protocol processing is also offloaded to the
199crypto device.
200
201Decryption: The packet is sent to the crypto device for security
202protocol processing. The device will decrypt the packet and it will also
203optionally remove additional security headers from the packet.
204E.g. in case of IPsec, IPsec tunnel headers (if any), ESP/AH headers
205will be removed from the packet and the decrypted packet may contain
206plain data only.
207
208.. note::
209
210    In case of IPsec the device may internally manage anti-replay etc.
211    It will provide a configuration option for anti-replay behavior i.e. to drop
212    the packets or pass them to driver with error flags set in descriptor.
213
214Encryption: The software will submit the packet to cryptodev as usual
215for encryption, the hardware device in this case will also add the relevant
216security protocol header along with encrypting the packet. The software
217should make sure that the buffer has required head room and tail room
218for any protocol header addition.
219
220.. note::
221
222    In the case of IPsec, the seq number will be added to the packet,
223    It shall provide an indication when the sequence number is about to
224    overflow.
225
226.. code-block:: console
227
228          Egress Data Path
229                 |
230        +--------|--------+
231        |  egress IPsec   |
232        |        |        |
233        | +------V------+ |
234        | | SADB lookup | |   <------ SA maps to cryptodev session
235        | +------|------+ |
236        | +------|------+ |
237        | |      \--------------------\
238        | |    Crypto   | |           |  <- Crypto processing through
239        | |      /----------------\   |     inline crypto PMD
240        | +------|------+ |       |   |
241        +--------V--------+       |   |
242                 |                |   |
243        +--------V--------+       |   |  create   <-- SA is added to hw
244        |    L2 Stack     |       |   |  inline       using existing create
245        +--------|--------+       |   |  session      sym session APIs
246                 |                |   |    |
247        +--------V--------+   +---|---|----V---+
248        |                 |   |   \---/    |   | <--- Add tunnel, ESP header etc
249        |     NIC PMD     |   |   INLINE   |   |      header to packet.Packet
250        |                 |   | CRYPTO PMD |   |      Encryption/Decryption and
251        +--------|--------+   +----------------+      Authentication happens
252                 |                                    inline.
253        +--------|--------+
254        |       NIC       |
255        +--------|--------+
256                 V
257
258PDCP Flow Diagram
259~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
260
261Based on 3GPP TS 36.323 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA);
262Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification
263
264.. code-block:: c
265
266        Transmitting PDCP Entity          Receiving PDCP Entity
267                  |                                   ^
268                  |                       +-----------|-----------+
269                  V                       | In order delivery and |
270        +---------|----------+            | Duplicate detection   |
271        | Sequence Numbering |            |  (Data Plane only)    |
272        +---------|----------+            +-----------|-----------+
273                  |                                   |
274        +---------|----------+            +-----------|----------+
275        | Header Compression*|            | Header Decompression*|
276        | (Data-Plane only)  |            |   (Data Plane only)  |
277        +---------|----------+            +-----------|----------+
278                  |                                   |
279        +---------|-----------+           +-----------|----------+
280        | Integrity Protection|           |Integrity Verification|
281        | (Control Plane only)|           | (Control Plane only) |
282        +---------|-----------+           +-----------|----------+
283        +---------|-----------+            +----------|----------+
284        |     Ciphering       |            |     Deciphering     |
285        +---------|-----------+            +----------|----------+
286        +---------|-----------+            +----------|----------+
287        |   Add PDCP header   |            | Remove PDCP Header  |
288        +---------|-----------+            +----------|----------+
289                  |                                   |
290                  +----------------->>----------------+
291
292
293.. note::
294
295    * Header Compression and decompression are not supported currently.
296
297Just like IPsec, in case of PDCP also header addition/deletion, cipher/
298de-cipher, integrity protection/verification is done based on the action
299type chosen.
300
301DOCSIS Protocol
302~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
303
304The Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) support comprises
305the combination of encryption/decryption and CRC generation/verification, for
306use in a DOCSIS-MAC pipeline.
307
308.. code-block:: c
309
310
311               Downlink                       Uplink
312               --------                       ------
313
314            Ethernet frame                Ethernet frame
315           from core network              to core network
316                  |                              ^
317                  ~                              |
318                  |                              ~         ----+
319                  V                              |             |
320        +---------|----------+        +----------|---------+   |
321        |   CRC generation   |        |  CRC verification  |   |
322        +---------|----------+        +----------|---------+   |   combined
323                  |                              |             > Crypto + CRC
324        +---------|----------+        +----------|---------+   |
325        |     Encryption     |        |     Decryption     |   |
326        +---------|----------+        +----------|---------+   |
327                  |                              ^             |
328                  ~                              |         ----+
329                  |                              ~
330                  V                              |
331             DOCSIS frame                  DOCSIS frame
332            to Cable Modem               from Cable Modem
333
334The encryption/decryption is a combination of CBC and CFB modes using either AES
335or DES algorithms as specified in the DOCSIS Security Specification (from DPDK
336lib_rtecryptodev perspective, these are RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI and
337RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_DES_DOCSISBPI).
338
339The CRC is Ethernet CRC-32 as specified in Ethernet/[ISO/IEC 8802-3].
340
341.. note::
342
343    * The offset and length of data for which CRC needs to be computed are
344      specified via the auth offset and length fields of the rte_crypto_sym_op.
345    * Other DOCSIS protocol functionality such as Header Checksum (HCS)
346      calculation may be added in the future.
347
348Device Features and Capabilities
349---------------------------------
350
351Device Capabilities For Security Operations
352~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
353
354The device (crypto or ethernet) capabilities which support security operations,
355are defined by the security action type, security protocol, protocol
356capabilities and corresponding crypto capabilities for security. For the full
357scope of the Security capability see definition of rte_security_capability
358structure in the *DPDK API Reference*.
359
360.. code-block:: c
361
362   struct rte_security_capability;
363
364Each driver (crypto or ethernet) defines its own private array of capabilities
365for the operations it supports. Below is an example of the capabilities for a
366PMD which supports the IPsec and PDCP protocol.
367
368.. code-block:: c
369
370    static const struct rte_security_capability pmd_security_capabilities[] = {
371        { /* IPsec Lookaside Protocol offload ESP Tunnel Egress */
372                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
373                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_IPSEC,
374                .ipsec = {
375                        .proto = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_PROTO_ESP,
376                        .mode = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_MODE_TUNNEL,
377                        .direction = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_DIR_EGRESS,
378                        .options = { 0 }
379                },
380                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
381        },
382        { /* IPsec Lookaside Protocol offload ESP Tunnel Ingress */
383                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
384                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_IPSEC,
385                .ipsec = {
386                        .proto = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_PROTO_ESP,
387                        .mode = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_MODE_TUNNEL,
388                        .direction = RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_DIR_INGRESS,
389                        .options = { 0 }
390                },
391                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
392        },
393        { /* PDCP Lookaside Protocol offload Data Plane */
394                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
395                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_PDCP,
396                .pdcp = {
397                        .domain = RTE_SECURITY_PDCP_MODE_DATA,
398                        .capa_flags = 0
399                },
400                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
401        },
402        { /* PDCP Lookaside Protocol offload Control */
403                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
404                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_PDCP,
405                .pdcp = {
406                        .domain = RTE_SECURITY_PDCP_MODE_CONTROL,
407                        .capa_flags = 0
408                },
409                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
410        },
411	{ /* PDCP Lookaside Protocol offload short MAC-I */
412                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
413                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_PDCP,
414                .pdcp = {
415                        .domain = RTE_SECURITY_PDCP_MODE_SHORT_MAC,
416                        .capa_flags = 0
417                },
418                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
419        },
420        {
421                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_NONE
422        }
423    };
424    static const struct rte_cryptodev_capabilities pmd_capabilities[] = {
425        {    /* SHA1 HMAC */
426            .op = RTE_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_SYMMETRIC,
427            .sym = {
428                .xform_type = RTE_CRYPTO_SYM_XFORM_AUTH,
429                .auth = {
430                    .algo = RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC,
431                    .block_size = 64,
432                    .key_size = {
433                        .min = 64,
434                        .max = 64,
435                        .increment = 0
436                    },
437                    .digest_size = {
438                        .min = 12,
439                        .max = 12,
440                        .increment = 0
441                    },
442                    .aad_size = { 0 },
443                    .iv_size = { 0 }
444                }
445            }
446        },
447        {    /* AES CBC */
448            .op = RTE_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_SYMMETRIC,
449            .sym = {
450                .xform_type = RTE_CRYPTO_SYM_XFORM_CIPHER,
451                .cipher = {
452                    .algo = RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_CBC,
453                    .block_size = 16,
454                    .key_size = {
455                        .min = 16,
456                        .max = 32,
457                        .increment = 8
458                    },
459                    .iv_size = {
460                        .min = 16,
461                        .max = 16,
462                        .increment = 0
463                    }
464                }
465            }
466        }
467    }
468
469Below is an example of the capabilities for a PMD which supports the DOCSIS
470protocol.
471
472.. code-block:: c
473
474    static const struct rte_security_capability pmd_security_capabilities[] = {
475        { /* DOCSIS Uplink */
476                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
477                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
478                .docsis = {
479                        .direction = RTE_SECURITY_DOCSIS_UPLINK
480                },
481                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
482        },
483        { /* DOCSIS Downlink */
484                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
485                .protocol = RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
486                .docsis = {
487                        .direction = RTE_SECURITY_DOCSIS_DOWNLINK
488                },
489                .crypto_capabilities = pmd_capabilities
490        },
491        {
492                .action = RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_NONE
493        }
494    };
495    static const struct rte_cryptodev_capabilities pmd_capabilities[] = {
496        {    /* AES DOCSIS BPI */
497            .op = RTE_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_SYMMETRIC,
498            .sym = {
499                .xform_type = RTE_CRYPTO_SYM_XFORM_CIPHER,
500                .cipher = {
501                    .algo = RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI,
502                    .block_size = 16,
503                    .key_size = {
504                        .min = 16,
505                        .max = 32,
506                        .increment = 16
507                    },
508                    .iv_size = {
509                        .min = 16,
510                        .max = 16,
511                        .increment = 0
512                    }
513                }
514            }
515        },
516
517        RTE_CRYPTODEV_END_OF_CAPABILITIES_LIST()
518    };
519
520Capabilities Discovery
521~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
522
523Discovering the features and capabilities of a driver (crypto/ethernet)
524is achieved through the ``rte_security_capabilities_get()`` function.
525
526.. code-block:: c
527
528   const struct rte_security_capability *rte_security_capabilities_get(uint16_t id);
529
530This allows the user to query a specific driver and get all device
531security capabilities. It returns an array of ``rte_security_capability`` structures
532which contains all the capabilities for that device.
533
534Security Session Create/Free
535~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
536
537Security Sessions are created to store the immutable fields of a particular Security
538Association for a particular protocol which is defined by a security session
539configuration structure which is used in the operation processing of a packet flow.
540Sessions are used to manage protocol specific information as well as crypto parameters.
541Security sessions cache this immutable data in a optimal way for the underlying PMD
542and this allows further acceleration of the offload of Crypto workloads.
543
544The Security framework provides APIs to create and free sessions for crypto/ethernet
545devices, where sessions are mempool objects. It is the application's responsibility
546to create and manage two session mempools - one for session and other for session
547private data. The private session data mempool object size should be able to
548accommodate the driver's private data of security session. The application can get
549the size of session private data using API ``rte_security_session_get_size``.
550And the session mempool object size should be enough to accommodate
551``rte_security_session``.
552
553Once the session mempools have been created, ``rte_security_session_create()``
554is used to allocate and initialize a session for the required crypto/ethernet device.
555
556Session APIs need a parameter ``rte_security_ctx`` to identify the crypto/ethernet
557security ops. This parameter can be retrieved using the APIs
558``rte_cryptodev_get_sec_ctx()`` (for crypto device) or ``rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx``
559(for ethernet port).
560
561Sessions already created can be updated with ``rte_security_session_update()``.
562
563When a session is no longer used, the user must call ``rte_security_session_destroy()``
564to free the driver private session data and return the memory back to the mempool.
565
566For look aside protocol offload to hardware crypto device, the ``rte_crypto_op``
567created by the application is attached to the security session by the API
568``rte_security_attach_session()``.
569
570For Inline Crypto and Inline protocol offload, device specific defined metadata is
571updated in the mbuf using ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata()`` if
572``RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_SEC_NEED_MDATA`` is set.
573
574For inline protocol offloaded ingress traffic, the application can register a
575pointer, ``userdata`` , in the security session. When the packet is received,
576``rte_security_get_userdata()`` would return the userdata registered for the
577security session which processed the packet.
578
579.. note::
580
581    In case of inline processed packets, ``RTE_SECURITY_DYNFIELD_NAME`` field
582    would be used by the driver to relay information on the security processing
583    associated with the packet. In ingress, the driver would set this in Rx
584    path while in egress, ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata()`` would perform a
585    similar operation. The application is expected not to modify the field
586    when it has relevant info. For ingress, this device-specific 64 bit value
587    is required to derive other information (like userdata), required for
588    identifying the security processing done on the packet.
589
590Security session configuration
591~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
592
593Security Session configuration structure is defined as ``rte_security_session_conf``
594
595.. code-block:: c
596
597    struct rte_security_session_conf {
598        enum rte_security_session_action_type action_type;
599        /**< Type of action to be performed on the session */
600        enum rte_security_session_protocol protocol;
601        /**< Security protocol to be configured */
602        union {
603                struct rte_security_ipsec_xform ipsec;
604                struct rte_security_macsec_xform macsec;
605                struct rte_security_pdcp_xform pdcp;
606                struct rte_security_docsis_xform docsis;
607        };
608        /**< Configuration parameters for security session */
609        struct rte_crypto_sym_xform *crypto_xform;
610        /**< Security Session Crypto Transformations */
611        void *userdata;
612        /**< Application specific userdata to be saved with session */
613    };
614
615The configuration structure reuses the ``rte_crypto_sym_xform`` struct for crypto related
616configuration. The ``rte_security_session_action_type`` struct is used to specify whether the
617session is configured for Lookaside Protocol offload or Inline Crypto or Inline Protocol
618Offload.
619
620.. code-block:: c
621
622    enum rte_security_session_action_type {
623        RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_NONE,
624        /**< No security actions */
625        RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_CRYPTO,
626        /**< Crypto processing for security protocol is processed inline
627         * during transmission
628         */
629        RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_PROTOCOL,
630        /**< All security protocol processing is performed inline during
631         * transmission
632         */
633        RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL,
634        /**< All security protocol processing including crypto is performed
635         * on a lookaside accelerator
636         */
637        RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_CPU_CRYPTO
638        /**< Similar to ACTION_TYPE_NONE but crypto processing for security
639         * protocol is processed synchronously by a CPU.
640         */
641    };
642
643The ``rte_security_session_protocol`` is defined as
644
645.. code-block:: c
646
647    enum rte_security_session_protocol {
648        RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_IPSEC = 1,
649        /**< IPsec Protocol */
650        RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MACSEC,
651        /**< MACSec Protocol */
652        RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_PDCP,
653        /**< PDCP Protocol */
654        RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_DOCSIS,
655        /**< DOCSIS Protocol */
656    };
657
658Currently the library defines configuration parameters for IPsec and PDCP only.
659For other protocols like MACSec, structures and enums are defined as place holders
660which will be updated in the future.
661
662IPsec related configuration parameters are defined in ``rte_security_ipsec_xform``
663
664PDCP related configuration parameters are defined in ``rte_security_pdcp_xform``
665
666DOCSIS related configuration parameters are defined in ``rte_security_docsis_xform``
667
668
669Security API
670~~~~~~~~~~~~
671
672The rte_security Library API is described in the *DPDK API Reference* document.
673
674Flow based Security Session
675~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
676
677In the case of NIC based offloads, the security session specified in the
678'rte_flow_action_security' must be created on the same port as the
679flow action that is being specified.
680
681The ingress/egress flow attribute should match that specified in the security
682session if the security session supports the definition of the direction.
683
684Multiple flows can be configured to use the same security session. For
685example if the security session specifies an egress IPsec SA, then multiple
686flows can be specified to that SA. In the case of an ingress IPsec SA then
687it is only valid to have a single flow to map to that security session.
688
689.. code-block:: console
690
691         Configuration Path
692                 |
693        +--------|--------+
694        |    Add/Remove   |
695        |     IPsec SA    |   <------ Build security flow action of
696        |        |        |           ipsec transform
697        |--------|--------|
698                 |
699        +--------V--------+
700        |   Flow API      |
701        +--------|--------+
702                 |
703        +--------V--------+
704        |                 |
705        |     NIC PMD     |   <------ Add/Remove SA to/from hw context
706        |                 |
707        +--------|--------+
708                 |
709        +--------|--------+
710        |  HW ACCELERATED |
711        |        NIC      |
712        |                 |
713        +--------|--------+
714
715* Add/Delete SA flow:
716  To add a new inline SA construct a rte_flow_item for Ethernet + IP + ESP
717  using the SA selectors and the ``rte_crypto_ipsec_xform`` as the ``rte_flow_action``.
718  Note that any rte_flow_items may be empty, which means it is not checked.
719
720.. code-block:: console
721
722    In its most basic form, IPsec flow specification is as follows:
723        +-------+     +----------+    +--------+    +-----+
724        |  Eth  | ->  |   IP4/6  | -> |   ESP  | -> | END |
725        +-------+     +----------+    +--------+    +-----+
726
727    However, the API can represent, IPsec crypto offload with any encapsulation:
728        +-------+            +--------+    +-----+
729        |  Eth  | ->  ... -> |   ESP  | -> | END |
730        +-------+            +--------+    +-----+
731
732
733Telemetry support
734-----------------
735
736The Security library has support for displaying Crypto device information
737with respect to its Security capabilities. Telemetry commands that can be used
738are shown below.
739
740#. Get the list of available Crypto devices by ID, that supports Security features::
741
742     --> /security/cryptodev/list
743     {"/security/cryptodev/list": [0, 1, 2, 3]}
744
745#. Get the security capabilities of a Crypto device::
746
747     --> /security/cryptodev/sec_caps,0
748	 {"/security/cryptodev/sec_caps": {"sec_caps": [<array of serialized bytes of
749	 capabilities>], "sec_caps_n": <number of capabilities>}}
750
751 #. Get the security crypto capabilities of a Crypto device::
752
753     --> /security/cryptodev/crypto_caps,0,0
754	 {"/security/cryptodev/crypto_caps": {"crypto_caps": [<array of serialized bytes of
755	 capabilities>], "crypto_caps_n": <number of capabilities>}}
756
757For more information on how to use the Telemetry interface, see
758the :doc:`../howto/telemetry`.
759