tree aff5826f88e670cdb063d5fa6ad253b34569d211
parent 2a695062a5a42aead8c539a344168d4806b3fda2
author Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> 1700242645 +0100
committer Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> 1700250074 -0500

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>