Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] dm-inlinecrypt: add target for inline block device encryption

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 05:20:07PM +0800, Linlin Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/28/2026 7:21 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 01:23:27AM -0400, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 06:40:30AM -0700, Linlin Zhang wrote:
> >>> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> +	/*
> >>> +	 * Since we've added an encryption context to the bio and
> >>> +	 * blk-crypto-fallback may be needed to process it, it's necessary to
> >>> +	 * use the fallback-aware bio submission code rather than
> >>> +	 * unconditionally returning DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED.
> >>> +	 *
> >>> +	 * To get the correct accounting for a dm target in the case where
> >>> +	 * __blk_crypto_submit_bio() doesn't take ownership of the bio (returns
> >>> +	 * true), call __blk_crypto_submit_bio() directly and return
> >>> +	 * DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED in that case, rather than relying on
> >>> +	 * blk_crypto_submit_bio() which calls submit_bio() in that case.
> >>> +	 */
> >>> +	if (__blk_crypto_submit_bio(bio))
> >>
> >> This will still double account for fallback writes (which call
> >> submit_bio() on the encrypted bios, and return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED here). 
> > 
> > Just to clarify, I'm talking about the vmstats accounting. The IO
> > originally gets accounted by submit_bio() when the bio is submitted to
> > the dm device. For actual inline encryption and fallback reads, dm will
> > submit the bio to the underlying device using submit_bio_noacct() to
> > avoid double-counting the IO.
> > 
> > For fallback writes, __blk_crypto_submit_bio() will submit the encrypted
> > bios to the underlying device with submit_bio(). This adds the IO
> > sectors again, even though it's the same IO, only encrypted now.
> 
> 
> Right, thanks for calling this out.
> 
> For fallback writes, the IO is still double-counted. Given that this only
> affects IO accounting in the blk-crypto fallback write slow-path and not
> correctness, I think this is an acceptable tradeoff, and we can leave a
> TODO to revisit the accounting once a better solution exists.
> 
> Add the bellow to the annotate.
> 
>   /*
>    * TODO: blk-crypto fallback write slow-path currently double-accounts
>    * IO in vmstat, as encrypted bios are submitted via submit_bio().
>    * This does not affect data correctness. Consider fixing this if
>    * a cleaner accounting model for derived bios is introduced.
>    */
> 
> Do you agree?

You could add an extra argument, for instance "bool need_acct", to
__blk_crypto_submit_bio(), and plumb it through to
__blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio(), where it could be used to choose
between calling submit_bio() and and submit_bio_noacct().

We could even add a flag to cloned bios for stacked devices, that could
be checked in submit_bio(), so we didn't need to have
submit_bio_noacct(). But this is a pretty niche case with other
solutions, so I'm not sure if it warrants adding more checks to
submit_bio().

I do agree that people probably aren't using dm-inlinecrypt for devices
where they don't actually have inline encryption capabilities, so it's
not a major issue. What to you think, Mikulas?

-Ben
 
> > 
> > -Ben
> > 
> >>
> >> -Ben
> >>
> >>> +		return DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;
> >>> +	return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
> >>> +}
> >>
> >