From: Milan Broz If optional discard support in dm-crypt is enabled, discards requests bypass the crypt queue and blocks of the underlying device are discarded. For the read path, discarded blocks are handled the same as normal ciphertext blocks, thus decrypted. So if the underlying device announces discarded regions return zeroes, dm-crypt must disable this flag because after decryption there is just random noise instead of zeroes. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 ++ drivers/md/dm-table.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/device-mapper.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+) Index: linux-3.1-rc7/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.1-rc7.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ linux-3.1-rc7/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -1698,6 +1698,8 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *t } ti->num_flush_requests = 1; + ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported = 1; + return 0; bad: Index: linux-3.1-rc7/drivers/md/dm-table.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.1-rc7.orig/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ linux-3.1-rc7/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -1283,6 +1283,22 @@ static bool dm_table_supports_flush(stru return 0; } +static bool dm_table_discard_zeroes_data(struct dm_table *t) +{ + struct dm_target *ti; + unsigned i = 0; + + /* Ensure that all targets supports discard_zeroes_data. */ + while (i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t)) { + ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i++); + + if (ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported) + return 0; + } + + return 1; +} + void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q, struct queue_limits *limits) { @@ -1305,6 +1321,9 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm } blk_queue_flush(q, flush); + if (!dm_table_discard_zeroes_data(t)) + q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0; + dm_table_set_integrity(t); /* Index: linux-3.1-rc7/include/linux/device-mapper.h =================================================================== --- linux-3.1-rc7.orig/include/linux/device-mapper.h +++ linux-3.1-rc7/include/linux/device-mapper.h @@ -197,6 +197,11 @@ struct dm_target { * whether or not its underlying devices have support. */ unsigned discards_supported:1; + + /* + * Set if this target does not return zeroes on discarded blocks. + */ + unsigned discard_zeroes_data_unsupported:1; }; /* Each target can link one of these into the table */