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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>,
	agk@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	dm-crypt@saout.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ebiggers@kernel.org, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, mpatocka@redhat.com,
	kernel-team@cloudflare.com, nobuto.murata@canonical.com,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dm-crypt with no_read_workqueue and no_write_workqueue + btrfs scrub = BUG()
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 07:56:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201223205642.GA19817@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c7129b-a437-ebc4-1466-7fb9f034e006@maciej.szmigiero.name>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:37:34PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> 
> It looks like to me that the skcipher API might not be safe to
> call from a softirq context, after all.

skcipher is safe to use in a softirq.  The problem is only in
dm-crypt where it tries to allocate memory with GFP_NOIO.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Cc: Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, snitzer@redhat.com,
	kernel-team@cloudflare.com, dm-crypt@saout.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nobuto.murata@canonical.com,
	ebiggers@kernel.org, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, mpatocka@redhat.com,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	agk@redhat.com, linux-crypto <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt with no_read_workqueue and no_write_workqueue + btrfs scrub = BUG()
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 07:56:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201223205642.GA19817@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c7129b-a437-ebc4-1466-7fb9f034e006@maciej.szmigiero.name>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:37:34PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> 
> It looks like to me that the skcipher API might not be safe to
> call from a softirq context, after all.

skcipher is safe to use in a softirq.  The problem is only in
dm-crypt where it tries to allocate memory with GFP_NOIO.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Cc: Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, snitzer@redhat.com,
	kernel-team@cloudflare.com, dm-crypt@saout.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nobuto.murata@canonical.com,
	ebiggers@kernel.org, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, mpatocka@redhat.com,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	agk@redhat.com, linux-crypto <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] dm-crypt with no_read_workqueue and no_write_workqueue + btrfs scrub = BUG()
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 07:56:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201223205642.GA19817@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c7129b-a437-ebc4-1466-7fb9f034e006@maciej.szmigiero.name>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:37:34PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> 
> It looks like to me that the skcipher API might not be safe to
> call from a softirq context, after all.

skcipher is safe to use in a softirq.  The problem is only in
dm-crypt where it tries to allocate memory with GFP_NOIO.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-23 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14 18:11 dm-crypt with no_read_workqueue and no_write_workqueue + btrfs scrub = BUG() Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-14 18:11 ` [dm-devel] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-14 18:11 ` [dm-crypt] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-14 18:11 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 15:37 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 15:37   ` [dm-devel] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 15:37   ` [dm-crypt] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 20:56   ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2020-12-23 20:56     ` [dm-devel] " Herbert Xu
2020-12-23 20:56     ` [dm-crypt] " Herbert Xu
2020-12-24 18:46     ` Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-24 18:46       ` [dm-devel] " Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-24 18:46       ` [dm-crypt] " Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-24 18:52       ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-24 18:52         ` [dm-devel] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-24 18:52         ` [dm-crypt] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 21:09   ` Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-23 21:09     ` [dm-devel] " Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-23 21:09     ` [dm-crypt] " Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-23 21:19     ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 21:19       ` [dm-devel] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 21:19       ` [dm-crypt] " Maciej S. Szmigiero
2020-12-23 21:31       ` Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-23 21:31         ` [dm-devel] " Ignat Korchagin
2020-12-23 21:31         ` [dm-crypt] " Ignat Korchagin

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