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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver (for 2.6) |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:13:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Am 23.03.2016 um 14:53 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> Am 21.03.2016 um 15:11 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > This series is just the block layer parts needed to add
> > a LUKS driver to QEMU. It was previously posted as part
> > of the larger series
> >
> > v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg04748.html
> > v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-01/msg00534.html
> > v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03176.html
> > v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06552.html
> > v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg04397.html
> >
> > The crypto subsystem pieces that this series depends on have now
> > all been merged.
> >
> > In this posting I am only proposing merge of the generic LUKS
> > driver. This can be added as a layer above any of the existing
> > drivers for accessing LUKS formatted volumes.
> >
> > When creating new volumes, however, only the file backend can
> > be used, since the block driver API doesn't allow for arbitrary
> > stacking of protocols when creating images.
> >
> > The integration with the qcow2 driver to replace the existing
> > built-in AES-CBC code is dropped from this series, postponed
> > until the 2.7 development cycle.
> >
> > There is a QEMU I/O test 149 that exercises the LUKS driver
> > and checks for compatibility with the dm-crypt/cryptsetup
> > impl.
>
> Thanks, applied to the block branch.
I need to drop patches 8 to 11 because they break qcow2 tests. Test case
updates are okay during hard freeze, so please send fixed versions of
these patches even after today.
Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 06/11] block: add generic full disk encryption driver, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 06/11] block: add generic full disk encryption driver, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/03/21
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 07/11] block: move encryption deprecation warning into qcow code, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/03/21
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 09/11] block: add support for encryption secrets in block I/O tests, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/03/21
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 10/11] block: enable testing of LUKS driver with block I/O tests, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/03/21
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 11/11] block: an interoperability test for luks vs dm-crypt/cryptsetup, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver (for 2.6), Kevin Wolf, 2016/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver (for 2.6), Kevin Wolf, 2016/03/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver (for 2.6),
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