dm-verity: don't use blocking calls from tasklets
The commit 5721d4e5a9cd enhanced dm-verity, so that it can verify blocks
from tasklets rather than from workqueues. This reportedly improves
performance significantly.
However, dm-verity was using the flag CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP from
tasklets which resulted in warnings about sleeping function being called
from non-sleeping context.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at crypto/internal.h:206
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 14, name: ksoftirqd/0
preempt_count: 100, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G W 6.7.0-rc1 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50
__might_resched+0x110/0x160
crypto_hash_walk_done+0x54/0xb0
shash_ahash_update+0x51/0x60
verity_hash_update.isra.0+0x4a/0x130 [dm_verity]
verity_verify_io+0x165/0x550 [dm_verity]
? free_unref_page+0xdf/0x170
? psi_group_change+0x113/0x390
verity_tasklet+0xd/0x70 [dm_verity]
tasklet_action_common.isra.0+0xb3/0xc0
__do_softirq+0xaf/0x1ec
? smpboot_thread_fn+0x1d/0x200
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
run_ksoftirqd+0x15/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0xed/0x200
kthread+0xdc/0x110
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x28/0x40
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
This commit fixes dm-verity so that it doesn't use the flags
CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP and CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG from tasklets. The
crypto API would do GFP_ATOMIC allocation instead, it could return -ENOMEM
and we catch -ENOMEM in verity_tasklet and requeue the request to the
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.0+
Fixes: 5721d4e5a9cd ("dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
3 files changed
