From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Since Linux v6.1, some filesystems support submitting direct I/O that is aligned to only dma_alignment instead of the logical_block_size alignment that was required before. I/O that is not aligned to the logical_block_size is difficult to handle in device-mapper targets that do cryptographic processing of data, as it makes the units of data that are hashed or encrypted possibly be split across pages, creating rarely used and rarely tested edge cases. As such, dm-crypt and dm-integrity have already opted out of this by setting dma_alignment to 'logical_block_size - 1'. Although dm-verity does have code that handles these cases (or at least is intended to do so), supporting direct I/O with such a low amount of alignment is not really useful on dm-verity devices. So, opt dm-verity out of it too so that it's not necessary to handle these edge cases. Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Added a comment, as requested by Christoph. Resending as a standalone patch since the series was already applied to linux-dm/for-next. drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c index bb5da66da4c1..90a13548028a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c @@ -1013,10 +1013,18 @@ static void verity_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits) if (limits->physical_block_size < 1 << v->data_dev_block_bits) limits->physical_block_size = 1 << v->data_dev_block_bits; blk_limits_io_min(limits, limits->logical_block_size); + + /* + * Similar to what dm-crypt does, opt dm-verity out of support for + * direct I/O that is aligned to less than the traditional direct I/O + * alignment requirement of logical_block_size. This prevents dm-verity + * data blocks from crossing pages, eliminating various edge cases. + */ + limits->dma_alignment = limits->logical_block_size - 1; } static void verity_dtr(struct dm_target *ti) { struct dm_verity *v = ti->private; base-commit: 22a40d14b572deb80c0648557f4bd502d7e83826 -- 2.45.2