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author | Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> | 2023-11-17 18:37:25 +0100 |
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committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> | 2023-11-17 14:41:14 -0500 |
commit | 28f07f2ab4b3a2714f1fefcc58ada4bcc195f806 (patch) | |
tree | aff5826f88e670cdb063d5fa6ad253b34569d211 /drivers/md/dm-verity.h | |
parent | 2a695062a5a42aead8c539a344168d4806b3fda2 (diff) | |
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dm-verity: don't use blocking calls from tasklets
The commit 5721d4e5a9cd enhanced dm-verity, so that it can verify blocks
from tasklets rather than from workqueues. This reportedly improves
performance significantly.
However, dm-verity was using the flag CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP from
tasklets which resulted in warnings about sleeping function being called
from non-sleeping context.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at crypto/internal.h:206
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 14, name: ksoftirqd/0
preempt_count: 100, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G W 6.7.0-rc1 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50
__might_resched+0x110/0x160
crypto_hash_walk_done+0x54/0xb0
shash_ahash_update+0x51/0x60
verity_hash_update.isra.0+0x4a/0x130 [dm_verity]
verity_verify_io+0x165/0x550 [dm_verity]
? free_unref_page+0xdf/0x170
? psi_group_change+0x113/0x390
verity_tasklet+0xd/0x70 [dm_verity]
tasklet_action_common.isra.0+0xb3/0xc0
__do_softirq+0xaf/0x1ec
? smpboot_thread_fn+0x1d/0x200
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
run_ksoftirqd+0x15/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0xed/0x200
kthread+0xdc/0x110
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x28/0x40
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
This commit fixes dm-verity so that it doesn't use the flags
CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP and CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG from tasklets. The
crypto API would do GFP_ATOMIC allocation instead, it could return -ENOMEM
and we catch -ENOMEM in verity_tasklet and requeue the request to the
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.0+
Fixes: 5721d4e5a9cd ("dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-verity.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-verity.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity.h b/drivers/md/dm-verity.h index 2f555b420367..f96f4e281ee4 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity.h +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity.h @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ extern int verity_for_bv_block(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io, u8 *data, size_t len)); extern int verity_hash(struct dm_verity *v, struct ahash_request *req, - const u8 *data, size_t len, u8 *digest); + const u8 *data, size_t len, u8 *digest, bool may_sleep); extern int verity_hash_for_block(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io, sector_t block, u8 *digest, bool *is_zero); |