Re: Deadlock when using crypto API for block devices

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Aug 24 2018 - 07:24:43 EST


On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:06:32AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> A quick search through the crypto code shows that ahash_save_req and
> seqiv_aead_encrypt return -ENOMEM.
>
> Will you fix them?

These only trigger for unaligned buffers. It would be much better
if dm-crypt can ensure that the input/output is properly unaligned
and if otherwise do the allocation in dm-crypt.

Cheers,
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