[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm crypt: Always disable discard zeroes data flag

Milan Broz mbroz at redhat.com
Mon Aug 8 21:48:13 UTC 2011


If optional discard support in dm-crypt is enabled,
discards requests bypass crypt queue and blocks
of the underlying device are discarded.

But for read path, discarded blocks are handled
as the same as normal ciphertext blocks, thus decrypted.

So if 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 <mbroz at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c         |    1 +
 drivers/md/dm-table.c         |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/device-mapper.h |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 49da55c..b6ac710 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -1698,6 +1698,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 	ti->num_flush_requests = 1;
+	ti->discard_zeroes_unsupported = 1;
 	return 0;
 
 bad:
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index 61d3e83..5294f29 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -1330,6 +1330,22 @@ static bool dm_table_is_nonrot(struct dm_table *t)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static bool dm_table_discard_zeroes(struct dm_table *t)
+{
+	struct dm_target *ti;
+	unsigned i = 0;
+
+	/* Ensure that all targets supports discard zeroes. */
+	while (i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t)) {
+		ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i++);
+
+		if (ti->discard_zeroes_unsupported)
+			return 0;
+	}
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
 void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
 			       struct queue_limits *limits)
 {
@@ -1357,6 +1373,9 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
 	else
 		queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
 
+	if (!dm_table_discard_zeroes(t))
+		q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0;
+
 	dm_table_set_integrity(t);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index ba99936..2416cf1 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -208,6 +208,11 @@ 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_unsupported:1;
 };
 
 /* Each target can link one of these into the table */
-- 
1.7.5.4




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