Re: [PATCH 5.10 045/152] dm crypt: use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating crypto requests from softirq

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Fix this by allocating crypto requests with GFP_ATOMIC mask in
> > interrupt context.
> ...
>
> This one is wrong.
>
>
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> > @@ -1454,13 +1454,16 @@ static int crypt_convert_block_skcipher(
> > -     if (!ctx->r.req)
> > -             ctx->r.req = mempool_alloc(&cc->req_pool, GFP_NOIO);
> > +     if (!ctx->r.req) {
> > +             ctx->r.req = mempool_alloc(&cc->req_pool, in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_NOIO);
>
> Good so far. Ugly but good.
>
> > -static void crypt_alloc_req_aead(struct crypt_config *cc,
> > +static int crypt_alloc_req_aead(struct crypt_config *cc,
> >                                struct convert_context *ctx)
> >  {
> > -     if (!ctx->r.req_aead)
> > -             ctx->r.req_aead = mempool_alloc(&cc->req_pool, GFP_NOIO);
> > +     if (!ctx->r.req) {
> > +             ctx->r.req = mempool_alloc(&cc->req_pool, in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_NOIO);
> > +             if (!ctx->r.req)
> > +                     return -ENOMEM;
> > +     }
>
> But this one can't be good. We are now allocating different field in
> the structure!

Good catch! Sorry for the copy-paste. It is actually not a big deal,
because this is not a structure, but a union:
as long as the mempool was initialized with the correct size, it
should be no different.

Nevertheless, I'll send the patch to fix the typo.

Regards,
Ignat

>                                                                 Pavel
>
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