Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2023 17:24:04 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY flag |
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote: > > BTW, some time ago we did an assessment of the users of > !CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY and we came to the conclusion that we > cannot just update the documentation. > dm-crypt uses scatterlists with at most 4 entries. dm-integrity, > instead, might allocate memory for scatterlists with an arbitrary number > of entries.
dm-integrity shouldn't be using ALLOCATES_MEMORY at all. It's using GFP_KERNEL allocations right next to the crypto operations.
But those are some seriously big crypto operations, 16 thousand 4K pages in one hit?
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