linux-kernel - Re: Intel QAT on A2SDi-8C-HLN4F causes massive data corruption with dm-crypt + xfs

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Message-ID: <Yh9ZvLHuztwQCu0d@silpixa00400314>
Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 11:49:16 +0000
From:   Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, qat-linux@...el.com,
        Linux-Kernal <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Intel QAT on A2SDi-8C-HLN4F causes massive data corruption with
 dm-crypt + xfs

Hi Greg,

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:11:13PM +1200, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 05:12:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > It sounds like it was incidental and almost accidental that it fixed
> > > that thing, and nobody realized it should perhaps be also moved to
> > > stable.
> > 
> > Yes this was incidental.  The patch in question fixes an issue in
> > OOM situations where drivers that must allocate memory on each
> > request may lead to dead-lock so it's not really targeted at qat.
> 
> Ok, so what commits should I backport to kernels older than 5.10 to
> resolve this?
Is it possible to wait for a set that resolves the problem rather than
backporting the patches that disables the use-case?
I have a patchset that fixes the actual issue and we are doing an
internal review before submission to the mailing list.
I should be able to send a V1 out between today and tomorrow.

If not, then these are the patches that should be backported:
    7bcb2c99f8ed crypto: algapi - use common mechanism for inheriting flags
    2eb27c11937e crypto: algapi - add NEED_FALLBACK to INHERITED_FLAGS
    fbb6cda44190 crypto: algapi - introduce the flag CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY
    b8aa7dc5c753 crypto: drivers - set the flag CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY
    cd74693870fb dm crypt: don't use drivers that have CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY
Herbert, correct me if I'm wrong here.

Thanks,

-- 
Giovanni