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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-06-13 09:58:44 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-06-15 15:42:52 -0700
commitc8ee634048ddab66580c168174c9d46ce1b0fc53 (patch)
treed381c2735291e58e6935d8f575dfebede3b62cd7
parenta61bb36996db340edd861f305c1360185fe12127 (diff)
docs: net: tls-offload: document tls_dev_del, tls_dev_resync, and rekey
Fill in some gaps in the TLS offload doc: - describe the tls_dev_del and tls_dev_resync callbacks - add a mention of rekeying being out of scope for now Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260613165846.2913092-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst45
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
index 25ee8d9f12c9..e5802bcd4d22 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,29 @@ at the end of kernel structures (see :c:member:`driver_state` members
in ``include/net/tls.h``) to avoid additional allocations and pointer
dereferences.
+When the offloaded connection is destroyed the core calls
+the :c:member:`tls_dev_del` callback so the driver can release per-direction
+state:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ void (*tls_dev_del)(struct net_device *netdev,
+ struct tls_context *ctx,
+ enum tls_offload_ctx_dir direction);
+
+``tls_dev_del`` is mandatory whenever ``tls_dev_add`` is provided.
+
+The third TLS device callback is :c:member:`tls_dev_resync`, called by the core
+to synchronize the TCP stream with the record boundaries:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ int (*tls_dev_resync)(struct net_device *netdev,
+ struct sock *sk, u32 seq, u8 *rcd_sn,
+ enum tls_offload_ctx_dir direction);
+
+See the `Resync handling`_ section for details.
+
TX
--
@@ -250,9 +273,9 @@ Following helper should be used to test if resync is complete:
bool tls_offload_tx_resync_pending(struct sock *sk)
Next time ``ktls`` pushes a record it will first send its TCP sequence number
-and TLS record number to the driver. Stack will also make sure that
-the new record will start on a segment boundary (like it does when
-the connection is initially added).
+and TLS record number to the driver via the ``tls_dev_resync`` callback.
+The stack will also make sure that the new record will start on a segment
+boundary (like it does when the connection is initially added).
RX
--
@@ -344,9 +367,10 @@ all TLS record headers that have been logged since the resync request
started.
The kernel confirms the guessed location was correct and tells the device
-the record sequence number. Meanwhile, the device had been parsing
-and counting all records since the just-confirmed one, it adds the number
-of records it had seen to the record number provided by the kernel.
+the record sequence number via the ``tls_dev_resync`` callback. Meanwhile,
+the device had been parsing and counting all records since the just-confirmed
+one, it adds the number of records it had seen to the record number provided
+by the kernel.
At this point the device is in sync and can resume decryption at next
segment boundary.
@@ -370,12 +394,19 @@ schedules resynchronization after it has received two completely encrypted
records.
The stack waits for the socket to drain and informs the device about
-the next expected record number and its TCP sequence number. If the
+the next expected record number and its TCP sequence number via the
+``tls_dev_resync`` callback. If the
records continue to be received fully encrypted stack retries the
synchronization with an exponential back off (first after 2 encrypted
records, then after 4 records, after 8, after 16... up until every
128 records).
+Rekey
+=====
+
+Offload does not currently support TLS 1.3, therefore key rotation
+is not a concern for offloaded connections at this point.
+
Error handling
==============