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>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
index 26adcfea0302..e115fcfe723c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
@@ -135,20 +135,21 @@ static int verity_hash_update(struct dm_verity *v, struct ahash_request *req,
  * Wrapper for crypto_ahash_init, which handles verity salting.
  */
 static int verity_hash_init(struct dm_verity *v, struct ahash_request *req,
-				struct crypto_wait *wait)
+				struct crypto_wait *wait, bool may_sleep)
 {
 	int r;
 
 	ahash_request_set_tfm(req, v->tfm);
-	ahash_request_set_callback(req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP |
-					CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG,
-					crypto_req_done, (void *)wait);
+	ahash_request_set_callback(req,
+		may_sleep ? CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP | CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG : 0,
+		crypto_req_done, (void *)wait);
 	crypto_init_wait(wait);
 
 	r = crypto_wait_req(crypto_ahash_init(req), wait);
 
 	if (unlikely(r < 0)) {
-		DMERR("crypto_ahash_init failed: %d", r);
+		if (r != -ENOMEM)
+			DMERR("crypto_ahash_init failed: %d", r);
 		return r;
 	}
 
@@ -179,12 +180,12 @@ out:
 }
 
 int verity_hash(struct dm_verity *v, struct ahash_request *req,
-		const u8 *data, size_t len, u8 *digest)
+		const u8 *data, size_t len, u8 *digest, bool may_sleep)
 {
 	int r;
 	struct crypto_wait wait;
 
-	r = verity_hash_init(v, req, &wait);
+	r = verity_hash_init(v, req, &wait, may_sleep);
 	if (unlikely(r < 0))
 		goto out;
 
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ static int verity_verify_level(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io,
 
 		r = verity_hash(v, verity_io_hash_req(v, io),
 				data, 1 << v->hash_dev_block_bits,
-				verity_io_real_digest(v, io));
+				verity_io_real_digest(v, io), !io->in_tasklet);
 		if (unlikely(r < 0))
 			goto release_ret_r;
 
@@ -556,7 +557,7 @@ static int verity_verify_io(struct dm_verity_io *io)
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		r = verity_hash_init(v, req, &wait);
+		r = verity_hash_init(v, req, &wait, !io->in_tasklet);
 		if (unlikely(r < 0))
 			return r;
 
@@ -652,7 +653,7 @@ static void verity_tasklet(unsigned long data)
 
 	io->in_tasklet = true;
 	err = verity_verify_io(io);
-	if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+	if (err == -EAGAIN || err == -ENOMEM) {
 		/* fallback to retrying with work-queue */
 		INIT_WORK(&io->work, verity_work);
 		queue_work(io->v->verify_wq, &io->work);
@@ -1033,7 +1034,7 @@ static int verity_alloc_zero_digest(struct dm_verity *v)
 		goto out;
 
 	r = verity_hash(v, req, zero_data, 1 << v->data_dev_block_bits,
-			v->zero_digest);
+			v->zero_digest, true);
 
 out:
 	kfree(req);