Re: Deadlock when using crypto API for block devices

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Aug 24 2018 - 07:25:24 EST


On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:22:19AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> And also ablkcipher_next_slow, ablkcipher_copy_iv, skcipher_next_slow,
> skcipher_next_copy, skcipher_copy_iv, blkcipher_next_slow,
> blkcipher_copy_iv.
>
> So, I think that dropping CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP is not possible.

These should never trigger for dm-crypt AFAICS since it only
happens if you provide unaligned input/output.

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