From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dm-verity: Add try_verify_in_tasklet
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:06:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yt9aGRXNNPGZFvld@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yt9KTzXUeA8xAiGv@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:58:39PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
> > @@ -1156,7 +1217,7 @@ static int verity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
> > goto bad;
> > }
> >
> > - v->tfm = crypto_alloc_ahash(v->alg_name, 0, 0);
> > + v->tfm = crypto_alloc_ahash(v->alg_name, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
> > if (IS_ERR(v->tfm)) {
> > ti->error = "Cannot initialize hash function";
> > r = PTR_ERR(v->tfm);
>
> This hunk that adds the CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC flag _seems_ unrelated.
I believe it's needed to ensure that only a synchronous algorithm is allocated,
so that verity_hash_update() doesn't have to sleep during the tasklet. It
should be conditional on v->use_tasklet, though.
> @@ -321,14 +320,12 @@ static int verity_verify_level(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io,
> if (likely(memcmp(verity_io_real_digest(v, io), want_digest,
> v->digest_size) == 0))
> aux->hash_verified = 1;
> - else if (io->in_tasklet) {
> + else if (io->in_tasklet)
> /*
> * FEC code cannot be run in a tasklet since it may
> - * sleep. We need to resume execution in a work-queue
> - * to handle FEC.
> + * sleep, so fallback to using a work-queue.
> */
> return -EAGAIN;
> - }
Doesn't this need to be:
r = -EAGAIN;
goto release_ret_r;
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-26 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-22 9:38 [PATCH 0/3] dm-verity: optionally use tasklets in dm-verity Nathan Huckleberry
2022-07-22 9:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] dm-bufio: Add flags for dm_bufio_client_create Nathan Huckleberry
2022-07-22 9:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] dm-bufio: Add DM_BUFIO_GET_CANT_SLEEP Nathan Huckleberry
2022-07-22 9:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm-verity: Add try_verify_in_tasklet Nathan Huckleberry
2022-07-26 1:58 ` Mike Snitzer
2022-07-26 3:06 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2022-07-26 4:13 ` Mike Snitzer
2022-07-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] dm-verity: optionally use tasklets in dm-verity Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-22 17:12 ` Mike Snitzer
2022-08-15 11:35 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-07-22 18:12 ` [dm-devel] " Bart Van Assche
2022-07-22 18:33 ` Mike Snitzer
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