Re: Kernel panic - encryption/decryption failed when open file on Arm64

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 12 September 2016 at 03:16, liushuoran <liushuoran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ard,
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. With the patch, there is no panic anymore. But it seems that the encryption/decryption is not successful anyway.
>
> As Herbert points out, "If the page allocation fails in blkcipher_walk_next it'll simply switch over to processing it block by block". So does that mean the encryption/decryption should be successful even if the page allocation fails? Please correct me if I misunderstand anything. Thanks in advance.
>

Perhaps Herbert can explain: I don't see how the 'n = 0' assignment
results in the correct path being taken; this chunk (blkcipher.c:252)

if (unlikely(n < bsize)) {
    err = blkcipher_next_slow(desc, walk, bsize, walk->alignmask);
    goto set_phys_lowmem;
}

is skipped due to the fact that n == 0 and therefore bsize == 0, and
so the condition is always false for n == 0

Therefore we end up here (blkcipher.c:257)

walk->nbytes = n;
if (walk->flags & BLKCIPHER_WALK_COPY) {
    err = blkcipher_next_copy(walk);
    goto set_phys_lowmem;
}

where blkcipher_next_copy() unconditionally calls memcpy() with
walk->page as destination (even though we ended up here due to the
fact that walk->page == NULL)

So to me, it seems like we should be taking the blkcipher_next_slow()
path, which does a kmalloc() and bails with -ENOMEM if that fails.