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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] dm-verity: Add try_verify_in_tasklet
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

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