From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Regression: wrong DIO alignment check with dm-crypt
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:11:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2Hf08vIKBkl5tu0@sol.localdomain> (raw)
Hi,
I happened to notice the following QEMU bug report:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1290
I believe it's a regression from the following kernel commit:
commit b1a000d3b8ec582da64bb644be633e5a0beffcbf
Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Jun 10 12:58:29 2022 -0700
block: relax direct io memory alignment
The bug is that if a dm-crypt device is set up with a crypto sector size (and
thus also a logical_block_size) of 4096, then the block layer now lets through
direct I/O requests to dm-crypt when the user buffer has only 512-byte
alignment, instead of the 4096-bytes expected by dm-crypt in that case. This is
because the dma_alignment of the device-mapper device is only 511 bytes.
This has two effects in this case:
- The error code for DIO with a misaligned buffer is now EIO, instead of
EINVAL as expected and documented. This is because the I/O reaches
dm-crypt instead of being rejected by the block layer.
- STATX_DIOALIGN reports 512 bytes for stx_dio_mem_align, instead of the
correct value of 4096. (Technically not a regression since STATX_DIOALIGN
is new in v6.1, but still a bug.)
Any thoughts on what the correct fix is here? Maybe the device-mapper layer
needs to set dma_alignment correctly? Or maybe the block layer needs to set it
to 'logical_block_size - 1' by default?
- Eric
next reply other threads:[~2022-11-02 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 3:11 Eric Biggers [this message]
2022-11-02 14:52 ` Regression: wrong DIO alignment check with dm-crypt Keith Busch
2022-11-02 16:14 ` Keith Busch
2022-11-02 17:03 ` Dmitrii Tcvetkov
2022-11-02 20:09 ` Keith Busch
2022-11-03 16:38 ` Dmitrii Tcvetkov
2022-11-02 18:45 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2022-11-02 18:58 ` Keith Busch
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