Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] net/handshake: Support KeyUpdate message types

From: Hannes Reinecke

Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 02:20:42 EST


On 10/3/25 06:31, alistair23@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>

When reporting the msg-type to userspace let's also support reporting
KeyUpdate events. This supports reporting a client/server event and if
the other side requested a KeyUpdateRequest.

Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446#section-4.6.3
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- Fixup yamllint and kernel-doc failures

Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml | 16 +++++++++-
Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst | 4 +--
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 12 ++++++--
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 11 +++++--
include/net/handshake.h | 10 +++++--
include/uapi/linux/handshake.h | 13 +++++++++
net/handshake/tlshd.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----
7 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml
index a273bc74d26f..c72ec8fa7d7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/handshake.yaml
@@ -21,12 +21,18 @@ definitions:
type: enum
name: msg-type
value-start: 0
- entries: [unspec, clienthello, serverhello]
+ entries: [unspec, clienthello, serverhello, clientkeyupdate,
+ clientkeyupdaterequest, serverkeyupdate, serverkeyupdaterequest]
-
type: enum
name: auth
value-start: 0
entries: [unspec, unauth, psk, x509]
+ -
+ type: enum
+ name: key-update-type
+ value-start: 0
+ entries: [unspec, send, received, received_request_update]
attribute-sets:
-
@@ -74,6 +80,13 @@ attribute-sets:
-
name: keyring
type: u32
+ -
+ name: key-update-request
+ type: u32
+ enum: key-update-type
+ -
+ name: key-serial
+ type: u32
-
name: done
attributes:
@@ -116,6 +129,7 @@ operations:
- certificate
- peername
- keyring
+ - key-serial
-
name: done
doc: Handler reports handshake completion
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
index d7287890056a..f858011e5bfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ To initiate a client-side TLS handshake with a pre-shared key, use:
.. code-block:: c
- ret = tls_client_hello_psk(args, gfp_flags);
+ ret = tls_client_hello_psk(args, gfp_flags, handshake_key_update_type);
However, in this case, the consumer fills in the @ta_my_peerids array
with serial numbers of keys containing the peer identities it wishes
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ or
.. code-block:: c
- ret = tls_server_hello_psk(args, gfp_flags);
+ ret = tls_server_hello_psk(args, gfp_flags, handshake_key_update_type);
The argument structure is filled in as above.
I would very much prefer to have our own function here; currently the
'tls_server_hello_psk' is issuing a 'ServerHello' command, the
'tls_client_hello_psk' is issuing a 'ClientHello' command.
Consequently I'd rather have 'tls_client_keyupdate_psk()' /
'tls_server_keyupdate_psk()' functions to indicate that we're sending
a KeyUpdate command instead of overloading the existing
commands.

Cheers,

Hannes
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