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SubjectRe: [stable][PATCH < 2.6.19] Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5
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Christophe Saout wrote:

> Fix corruption issue with dm-crypt on top of software raid5. Cancelled
> readahead bio's that report no error, just have BIO_UPTODATE cleared
> were reported as successful reads to the higher layers (and leaving
> random content in the buffer cache). Already fixed in 2.6.19.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
>
>
> --- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000
> +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2006-12-02 03:03:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -717,13 +717,15 @@
> if (bio->bi_size)
> return 1;
>
> + if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE) && !error)
> + error = -EIO;
> +
> bio_put(bio);
>
> /*
> * successful reads are decrypted by the worker thread
> */
> - if ((bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
> - && bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE)) {
> + if (bio_data_dir(io->bio) == READ && !error) {
> kcryptd_queue_io(io);

Why doesn't kcryptd_queue_io() check the return value from queue_work()?


476 static void kcryptd_queue_io(struct crypt_io *io)
477 {
478 INIT_WORK(&io->work, kcryptd_do_work, io);
479 queue_work(_kcryptd_workqueue, &io->work);
480 }

-piet

> return 0;
> }


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