Does the underlying encryption layer (CryptoAPI) have to ensure the
complete callbacks are called in the order the requests were submitted?
Or does dm-crypt figure out where to read/write after request is done
no matter in which order the crypto requests finished?
On 06.08.2015 12:15, Milan Broz wrote:
On 08/06/2015 09:00 AM, Vasile Catalin-B50542 wrote:Would dm-crypt execute correctly if sector encryption ended asynchronously? For example: If sector 1, 2, 3 are sent to be done asynchronously to the same algorithm instance, and the jobs end in the following order: 2, 1, 3; does the dm-crypt module know to write the data in the proper place when the encryption "done" callback is called?Not sure if I understand your question - encryption in dmcrypt works on sector level, sectors are encrypted independetly, so order cannot influence result of encryption of individual sectors. Or if the question is about order of submitted requests: If you need to ensure order of processing, you have to issue "flush" operation before submitting next data content. Filesystems typically must do this when handling journal or so. In general, requests order can be rearranged (anywhere in block layer, not only in dmcrypt). But this is correct behaviour. Milan
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