dm-crypt: avoid deadlock in mempools This patch fixes a theoretical deadlock introduced in the previous patch. The function crypt_alloc_buffer may be called concurrently. If we allocate from the mempool concurrently, there is a possibility of deadlock. For example, if we have mempool of 256 pages, two processes, each wanting 256, pages allocate from the mempool concurrently, it may deadlock in a situation where both processes have allocated 128 pages and the mempool is exhausted. In order to avoid this scenarios, we allocate the pages under a mutex. In order to not degrade performance with excessive locking, we try non-blocking allocations without a mutex first and if it fails, we fallback to a blocking allocation with a mutex. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-3.18-rc1/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.18-rc1.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2014-10-21 00:49:31.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-3.18-rc1/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2014-10-21 00:49:34.000000000 +0200 @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ struct crypt_config { mempool_t *req_pool; mempool_t *page_pool; struct bio_set *bs; + struct mutex bio_alloc_lock; struct workqueue_struct *io_queue; struct workqueue_struct *crypt_queue; @@ -949,27 +950,51 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(stru /* * Generate a new unfragmented bio with the given size * This should never violate the device limitations + * + * This function may be called concurrently. If we allocate from the mempool + * concurrently, there is a possibility of deadlock. For example, if we have + * mempool of 256 pages, two processes, each wanting 256, pages allocate from + * the mempool concurrently, it may deadlock in a situation where both processes + * have allocated 128 pages and the mempool is exhausted. + * + * In order to avoid this scenarios, we allocate the pages under a mutex. + * + * In order to not degrade performance with excessive locking, we try + * non-blocking allocations without a mutex first and if it fails, we fallback + * to a blocking allocation with a mutex. */ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(struct dm_crypt_io *io, unsigned size) { struct crypt_config *cc = io->cc; struct bio *clone; unsigned int nr_iovecs = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; - gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM; - unsigned i, len; + gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_HIGHMEM; + unsigned i, len, remaining_size; struct page *page; struct bio_vec *bvec; +retry: + if (unlikely(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) + mutex_lock(&cc->bio_alloc_lock); + clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, nr_iovecs, cc->bs); if (!clone) - return NULL; + goto return_clone; clone_init(io, clone); + remaining_size = size; + for (i = 0; i < nr_iovecs; i++) { page = mempool_alloc(cc->page_pool, gfp_mask); + if (!page) { + crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone); + bio_put(clone); + gfp_mask |= __GFP_WAIT; + goto retry; + } - len = (size > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : size; + len = (remaining_size > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : remaining_size; bvec = &clone->bi_io_vec[clone->bi_vcnt++]; bvec->bv_page = page; @@ -978,9 +1003,13 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(st clone->bi_iter.bi_size += len; - size -= len; + remaining_size -= len; } +return_clone: + if (unlikely(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) + mutex_unlock(&cc->bio_alloc_lock); + return clone; } @@ -1679,6 +1708,8 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *t goto bad; } + mutex_init(&cc->bio_alloc_lock); + ret = -EINVAL; if (sscanf(argv[2], "%llu%c", &tmpll, &dummy) != 1) { ti->error = "Invalid iv_offset sector";