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+/*
+ * osd_protocol.h - OSD T10 standard C definitions.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Panasas Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *   Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
+ *   Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
+ *
+ * This file contains types and constants that are defined by the protocol
+ * Note: All names and symbols are taken from the OSD standard's text.
+ */
+#ifndef __OSD_PROTOCOL_H__
+#define __OSD_PROTOCOL_H__
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
+#include <scsi/scsi.h>
+
+enum {
+	OSDv1_ADDITIONAL_CDB_LENGTH = 192,
+	OSDv1_TOTAL_CDB_LEN = OSDv1_ADDITIONAL_CDB_LENGTH + 8,
+	OSDv1_CAP_LEN = 80,
+	/* Latest supported version */
+	OSD_ADDITIONAL_CDB_LENGTH = OSDv1_ADDITIONAL_CDB_LENGTH,
+	OSD_TOTAL_CDB_LEN = OSDv1_TOTAL_CDB_LEN,
+	OSD_CAP_LEN = OSDv1_CAP_LEN,
+
+	OSD_SYSTEMID_LEN = 20,
+	OSD_CRYPTO_KEYID_SIZE = 20,
+	OSD_CRYPTO_SEED_SIZE = 4,
+	OSD_CRYPTO_NONCE_SIZE = 12,
+	OSD_MAX_SENSE_LEN = 252, /* from SPC-3 */
+
+	OSD_PARTITION_FIRST_ID = 0x10000,
+	OSD_OBJECT_FIRST_ID = 0x10000,
+};
+
+/* (osd-r10 5.2.4)
+ * osd2r03: 5.2.3 Caching control bits
+ */
+enum osd_options_byte {
+	OSD_CDB_FUA = 0x08,	/* Force Unit Access */
+	OSD_CDB_DPO = 0x10,	/* Disable Page Out */
+};
+
+/*
+ * osd2r03: 5.2.5 Isolation.
+ * First 3 bits, V2-only.
+ * Also for attr 110h "default isolation method" at Root Information page
+ */
+enum osd_options_byte_isolation {
+	OSD_ISOLATION_DEFAULT = 0,
+	OSD_ISOLATION_NONE = 1,
+	OSD_ISOLATION_STRICT = 2,
+	OSD_ISOLATION_RANGE = 4,
+	OSD_ISOLATION_FUNCTIONAL = 5,
+	OSD_ISOLATION_VENDOR = 7,
+};
+
+/* (osd-r10: 6.7)
+ * osd2r03: 6.8 FLUSH, FLUSH COLLECTION, FLUSH OSD, FLUSH PARTITION
+ */
+enum osd_options_flush_scope_values {
+	OSD_CDB_FLUSH_ALL = 0,
+	OSD_CDB_FLUSH_ATTR_ONLY = 1,
+
+	OSD_CDB_FLUSH_ALL_RECURSIVE = 2,
+	/* V2-only */
+	OSD_CDB_FLUSH_ALL_RANGE = 2,
+};
+
+/* osd2r03: 5.2.10 Timestamps control */
+enum {
+	OSD_CDB_NORMAL_TIMESTAMPS = 0,
+	OSD_CDB_BYPASS_TIMESTAMPS = 0x7f,
+};
+
+/* (osd-r10: 5.2.2.1)
+ * osd2r03: 5.2.4.1 Get and set attributes CDB format selection
+ *	2 bits at second nibble of command_specific_options byte
+ */
+enum osd_attributes_mode {
+	/* V2-only */
+	OSD_CDB_SET_ONE_ATTR = 0x10,
+
+	OSD_CDB_GET_ATTR_PAGE_SET_ONE = 0x20,
+	OSD_CDB_GET_SET_ATTR_LISTS = 0x30,
+
+	OSD_CDB_GET_SET_ATTR_MASK = 0x30,
+};
+
+/* (osd-r10: 4.12.5)
+ * osd2r03: 4.14.5 Data-In and Data-Out buffer offsets
+ *	byte offset = mantissa * (2^(exponent+8))
+ *	struct {
+ *		unsigned mantissa: 28;
+ *		int exponent: 04;
+ *	}
+ */
+typedef __be32 __bitwise osd_cdb_offset;
+
+enum {
+	OSD_OFFSET_UNUSED = 0xFFFFFFFF,
+	OSD_OFFSET_MAX_BITS = 28,
+
+	OSDv1_OFFSET_MIN_SHIFT = 8,
+	OSD_OFFSET_MAX_SHIFT = 16,
+};
+
+/* Return the smallest allowed encoded offset that contains @offset.
+ *
+ * The actual encoded offset returned is @offset + *padding.
+ * (up to max_shift, non-inclusive)
+ */
+osd_cdb_offset __osd_encode_offset(u64 offset, unsigned *padding,
+	int min_shift, int max_shift);
+
+/* Minimum alignment is 256 bytes
+ * Note: Seems from std v1 that exponent can be from 0+8 to 0xE+8 (inclusive)
+ * which is 8 to 23 but IBM code restricts it to 16, so be it.
+ */
+static inline osd_cdb_offset osd_encode_offset_v1(u64 offset, unsigned *padding)
+{
+	return __osd_encode_offset(offset, padding,
+				OSDv1_OFFSET_MIN_SHIFT, OSD_OFFSET_MAX_SHIFT);
+}
+
+/* osd2r03: 5.2.1 Overview */
+struct osd_cdb_head {
+	struct scsi_varlen_cdb_hdr varlen_cdb;
+/*10*/	u8		options;
+	u8		command_specific_options;
+	u8		timestamp_control;
+/*13*/	u8		reserved1[3];
+/*16*/	__be64		partition;
+/*24*/	__be64		object;
+/*32*/	union { /* V1 vs V2 alignment differences */
+		struct __osdv1_cdb_addr_len {
+/*32*/			__be32 		list_identifier;/* Rarely used */
+/*36*/			__be64		length;
+/*44*/			__be64		start_address;
+		} __packed v1;
+	};
+/*52*/	union { /* selected attributes mode Page/List/Single */
+		struct osd_attributes_page_mode {
+/*52*/			__be32		get_attr_page;
+/*56*/			__be32		get_attr_alloc_length;
+/*60*/			osd_cdb_offset	get_attr_offset;
+
+/*64*/			__be32		set_attr_page;
+/*68*/			__be32		set_attr_id;
+/*72*/			__be32		set_attr_length;
+/*76*/			osd_cdb_offset	set_attr_offset;
+/*80*/		} __packed attrs_page;
+
+		struct osd_attributes_list_mode {
+/*52*/			__be32		get_attr_desc_bytes;
+/*56*/			osd_cdb_offset	get_attr_desc_offset;
+
+/*60*/			__be32		get_attr_alloc_length;
+/*64*/			osd_cdb_offset	get_attr_offset;
+
+/*68*/			__be32		set_attr_bytes;
+/*72*/			osd_cdb_offset	set_attr_offset;
+			__be32 not_used;
+/*80*/		} __packed attrs_list;
+
+		/* osd2r03:5.2.4.2 Set one attribute value using CDB fields */
+		struct osd_attributes_cdb_mode {
+/*52*/			__be32		set_attr_page;
+/*56*/			__be32		set_attr_id;
+/*60*/			__be16		set_attr_len;
+/*62*/			u8		set_attr_val[18];
+/*80*/		} __packed attrs_cdb;
+/*52*/		u8 get_set_attributes_parameters[28];
+	};
+} __packed;
+/*80*/
+
+/*160 v1*/
+struct osd_security_parameters {
+/*160*/u8	integrity_check_value[OSD_CRYPTO_KEYID_SIZE];
+/*180*/u8	request_nonce[OSD_CRYPTO_NONCE_SIZE];
+/*192*/osd_cdb_offset	data_in_integrity_check_offset;
+/*196*/osd_cdb_offset	data_out_integrity_check_offset;
+} __packed;
+/*200 v1*/
+
+struct osdv1_cdb {
+	struct osd_cdb_head h;
+	u8 caps[OSDv1_CAP_LEN];
+	struct osd_security_parameters sec_params;
+} __packed;
+
+struct osd_cdb {
+	union {
+		struct osdv1_cdb v1;
+		u8 buff[OSD_TOTAL_CDB_LEN];
+	};
+} __packed;
+
+static inline struct osd_cdb_head *osd_cdb_head(struct osd_cdb *ocdb)
+{
+	return (struct osd_cdb_head *)ocdb->buff;
+}
+
+/* define both version actions
+ * Ex name = FORMAT_OSD we have OSD_ACT_FORMAT_OSD && OSDv1_ACT_FORMAT_OSD
+ */
+#define OSD_ACT___(Name, Num) \
+	OSD_ACT_##Name = __constant_cpu_to_be16(0x8880 + Num), \
+	OSDv1_ACT_##Name = __constant_cpu_to_be16(0x8800 + Num),
+
+/* V2 only actions */
+#define OSD_ACT_V2(Name, Num) \
+	OSD_ACT_##Name = __constant_cpu_to_be16(0x8880 + Num),
+
+#define OSD_ACT_V1_V2(Name, Num1, Num2) \
+	OSD_ACT_##Name = __constant_cpu_to_be16(Num2), \
+	OSDv1_ACT_##Name = __constant_cpu_to_be16(Num1),
+
+enum osd_service_actions {
+	OSD_ACT_V2(OBJECT_STRUCTURE_CHECK,	0x00)
+	OSD_ACT___(FORMAT_OSD,			0x01)
+	OSD_ACT___(CREATE,			0x02)
+	OSD_ACT___(LIST,			0x03)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(PUNCH,			0x04)
+	OSD_ACT___(READ,			0x05)
+	OSD_ACT___(WRITE,			0x06)
+	OSD_ACT___(APPEND,			0x07)
+	OSD_ACT___(FLUSH,			0x08)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(CLEAR,			0x09)
+	OSD_ACT___(REMOVE,			0x0A)
+	OSD_ACT___(CREATE_PARTITION,		0x0B)
+	OSD_ACT___(REMOVE_PARTITION,		0x0C)
+	OSD_ACT___(GET_ATTRIBUTES,		0x0E)
+	OSD_ACT___(SET_ATTRIBUTES,		0x0F)
+	OSD_ACT___(CREATE_AND_WRITE,		0x12)
+	OSD_ACT___(CREATE_COLLECTION,		0x15)
+	OSD_ACT___(REMOVE_COLLECTION,		0x16)
+	OSD_ACT___(LIST_COLLECTION,		0x17)
+	OSD_ACT___(SET_KEY,			0x18)
+	OSD_ACT___(SET_MASTER_KEY,		0x19)
+	OSD_ACT___(FLUSH_COLLECTION,		0x1A)
+	OSD_ACT___(FLUSH_PARTITION,		0x1B)
+	OSD_ACT___(FLUSH_OSD,			0x1C)
+
+	OSD_ACT_V2(QUERY,			0x20)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(REMOVE_MEMBER_OBJECTS,	0x21)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(GET_MEMBER_ATTRIBUTES,	0x22)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(SET_MEMBER_ATTRIBUTES,	0x23)
+	OSD_ACT_V2(READ_MAP,			0x31)
+
+	OSD_ACT_V1_V2(PERFORM_SCSI_COMMAND,	0x8F7E, 0x8F7C)
+	OSD_ACT_V1_V2(SCSI_TASK_MANAGEMENT,	0x8F7F, 0x8F7D)
+	/* 0x8F80 to 0x8FFF are Vendor specific */
+};
+
+/* osd2r03: 7.1.3.2 List entry format for retrieving attributes */
+struct osd_attributes_list_attrid {
+	__be32 attr_page;
+	__be32 attr_id;
+} __packed;
+
+/*
+ * osd2r03: 7.1.3.3 List entry format for retrieved attributes and
+ *                  for setting attributes
+ */
+struct osd_attributes_list_element {
+	__be32 attr_page;
+	__be32 attr_id;
+	__be16 attr_bytes;
+	u8 attr_val[0];
+} __packed;
+
+enum {
+	OSDv1_ATTRIBUTES_ELEM_ALIGN = 1,
+};
+
+enum {
+	OSD_ATTR_LIST_ALL_PAGES = 0xFFFFFFFF,
+	OSD_ATTR_LIST_ALL_IN_PAGE = 0xFFFFFFFF,
+};
+
+static inline unsigned osdv1_attr_list_elem_size(unsigned len)
+{
+	return ALIGN(len + sizeof(struct osd_attributes_list_element),
+		     OSDv1_ATTRIBUTES_ELEM_ALIGN);
+}
+
+/*
+ * osd2r03: 7.1.3 OSD attributes lists (Table 184) — List type values
+ */
+enum osd_attr_list_types {
+	OSD_ATTR_LIST_GET = 0x1, 	/* descriptors only */
+	OSD_ATTR_LIST_SET_RETRIEVE = 0x9, /*descriptors/values variable-length*/
+	OSD_V2_ATTR_LIST_MULTIPLE = 0xE,  /* ver2, Multiple Objects lists*/
+	OSD_V1_ATTR_LIST_CREATE_MULTIPLE = 0xF,/*ver1, used by create_multple*/
+};
+
+/* osd2r03: 7.1.3.4 Multi-object retrieved attributes format */
+struct osd_attributes_list_multi_header {
+	__be64 object_id;
+	u8 object_type; /* object_type enum below */
+	u8 reserved[5];
+	__be16 list_bytes;
+	/* followed by struct osd_attributes_list_element's */
+};
+
+struct osdv1_attributes_list_header {
+	u8 type;	/* low 4-bit only */
+	u8 pad;
+	__be16 list_bytes; /* Initiator shall set to Zero. Only set by target */
+	/*
+	 * type=9 followed by struct osd_attributes_list_element's
+	 * type=E followed by struct osd_attributes_list_multi_header's
+	 */
+} __packed;
+
+static inline unsigned osdv1_list_size(struct osdv1_attributes_list_header *h)
+{
+	return be16_to_cpu(h->list_bytes);
+}
+
+/* (osd-r10 6.13)
+ * osd2r03: 6.15 LIST (Table 79) LIST command parameter data.
+ *	for root_lstchg below
+ */
+enum {
+	OSD_OBJ_ID_LIST_PAR = 0x1, /* V1-only. Not used in V2 */
+	OSD_OBJ_ID_LIST_LSTCHG = 0x2,
+};
+
+/*
+ * osd2r03: 6.15.2 LIST command parameter data
+ * (Also for LIST COLLECTION)
+ */
+struct osd_obj_id_list {
+	__be64 list_bytes; /* bytes in list excluding list_bytes (-8) */
+	__be64 continuation_id;
+	__be32 list_identifier;
+	u8 pad[3];
+	u8 root_lstchg;
+	__be64 object_ids[0];
+} __packed;
+
+static inline bool osd_is_obj_list_done(struct osd_obj_id_list *list,
+	bool *is_changed)
+{
+	*is_changed = (0 != (list->root_lstchg & OSD_OBJ_ID_LIST_LSTCHG));
+	return 0 != list->continuation_id;
+}
+
+/*
+ * osd2r03: 4.12.4.5 The ALLDATA security method
+ */
+struct osd_data_out_integrity_info {
+	__be64 data_bytes;
+	__be64 set_attributes_bytes;
+	__be64 get_attributes_bytes;
+	__be64 integrity_check_value;
+} __packed;
+
+struct osd_data_in_integrity_info {
+	__be64 data_bytes;
+	__be64 retrieved_attributes_bytes;
+	__be64 integrity_check_value;
+} __packed;
+
+struct osd_timestamp {
+	u8 time[6]; /* number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 UT (big endian) */
+} __packed;
+/* FIXME: define helper functions to convert to/from osd time format */
+
+/*
+ * Capability & Security definitions
+ * osd2r03: 4.11.2.2 Capability format
+ * osd2r03: 5.2.8 Security parameters
+ */
+
+struct osd_key_identifier {
+	u8 id[7]; /* if you know why 7 please email bharrosh@panasas.com */
+} __packed;
+
+/* for osd_capability.format */
+enum {
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_FORMAT_NO_CAPS = 0,
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_FORMAT_VER1 = 1,
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_FORMAT_VER2 = 2,
+};
+
+/* security_method */
+enum {
+	OSD_SEC_NOSEC = 0,
+	OSD_SEC_CAPKEY = 1,
+	OSD_SEC_CMDRSP = 2,
+	OSD_SEC_ALLDATA = 3,
+};
+
+enum object_type {
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_ROOT = 0x1,
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_PARTITION = 0x2,
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_COLLECTION = 0x40,
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_USER = 0x80,
+};
+
+enum osd_capability_bit_masks {
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_APPEND	= BIT(0),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_OBJ_MGMT	= BIT(1),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_REMOVE	= BIT(2),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_CREATE	= BIT(3),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_SET_ATTR	= BIT(4),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_GET_ATTR	= BIT(5),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_WRITE	= BIT(6),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_READ	= BIT(7),
+
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_NONE1	= BIT(8),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_NONE2	= BIT(9),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_NONE3	= BIT(10),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_QUERY	= BIT(11), /*v2 only*/
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_M_OBJECT	= BIT(12), /*v2 only*/
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_POL_SEC	= BIT(13),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_GLOBAL	= BIT(14),
+	OSD_SEC_CAP_DEV_MGMT	= BIT(15),
+};
+
+/* for object_descriptor_type (hi nibble used) */
+enum {
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_DESC_NONE = 0,     /* Not allowed */
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_DESC_OBJ = 1 << 4, /* v1: also collection */
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_DESC_PAR = 2 << 4, /* also root */
+	OSD_SEC_OBJ_DESC_COL = 3 << 4, /* v2 only */
+};
+
+/* (osd-r10:4.9.2.2)
+ * osd2r03:4.11.2.2 Capability format
+ */
+struct osd_capability_head {
+	u8 format; /* low nibble */
+	u8 integrity_algorithm__key_version; /* MAKE_BYTE(integ_alg, key_ver) */
+	u8 security_method;
+	u8 reserved1;
+/*04*/	struct osd_timestamp expiration_time;
+/*10*/	u8 audit[20];
+/*30*/	u8 discriminator[12];
+/*42*/	struct osd_timestamp object_created_time;
+/*48*/	u8 object_type;
+/*49*/	u8 permissions_bit_mask[5];
+/*54*/	u8 reserved2;
+/*55*/	u8 object_descriptor_type; /* high nibble */
+} __packed;
+
+/*56 v1*/
+struct osdv1_cap_object_descriptor {
+	union {
+		struct {
+/*56*/			__be32 policy_access_tag;
+/*60*/			__be64 allowed_partition_id;
+/*68*/			__be64 allowed_object_id;
+/*76*/			__be32 reserved;
+		} __packed obj_desc;
+
+/*56*/		u8 object_descriptor[24];
+	};
+} __packed;
+/*80 v1*/
+
+struct osd_capability {
+	struct osd_capability_head h;
+	struct osdv1_cap_object_descriptor od;
+} __packed;
+
+/**
+ * osd_sec_set_caps - set cap-bits into the capabilities header
+ *
+ * @cap:	The osd_capability_head to set cap bits to.
+ * @bit_mask: 	Use an ORed list of enum osd_capability_bit_masks values
+ *
+ * permissions_bit_mask is unaligned use below to set into caps
+ * in a version independent way
+ */
+static inline void osd_sec_set_caps(struct osd_capability_head *cap,
+	u16 bit_mask)
+{
+	/*
+	 *Note: The bits above are defined LE order this is because this way
+	 *      they can grow in the future to more then 16, and still retain
+	 *      there constant values.
+	 */
+	put_unaligned_le16(bit_mask, &cap->permissions_bit_mask);
+}
+
+#endif /* ndef __OSD_PROTOCOL_H__ */