Re: [PATCH 1/3] dm integrity: do not filter algos with CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 09:57:54PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
>
> Then we are then back to square one. We need to check how many entries
> are present in the scatterlists encrypted by crypt_journal() before
> adjusting the meaning of !CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY.

Indeed.  I missed the fact that it was preallocating memory with
GFP_KERNEL.

So perhaps the answer is to adjust our API to allow the drivers to
pre-allocate memory.  I'll look into this.

Thanks,
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