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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-crypt.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c index 0f48fed44..0d28c5b9d 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -968,7 +968,8 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(struct crypt_config *cc, struct bio *clone); /* * Generate a new unfragmented bio with the given size - * This should never violate the device limitations + * This should never violate the device limitations (but only because + * max_segment_size is being constrained to PAGE_SIZE). * * This function may be called concurrently. If we allocate from the mempool * concurrently, there is a possibility of deadlock. For example, if we have @@ -2058,9 +2059,20 @@ static int crypt_iterate_devices(struct dm_target *ti, return fn(ti, cc->dev, cc->start, ti->len, data); } +static void crypt_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits) +{ + /* + * Unfortunate constraint that is required to avoid the potential + * for exceeding underlying device's max_segments limits -- due to + * crypt_alloc_buffer() possibly allocating pages for the encryption + * bio that are not as physically contiguous as the original bio. + */ + limits->max_segment_size = PAGE_SIZE; +} + static struct target_type crypt_target = { .name = "crypt", - .version = {1, 14, 0}, + .version = {1, 14, 1}, .module = THIS_MODULE, .ctr = crypt_ctr, .dtr = crypt_dtr, @@ -2072,6 +2084,7 @@ static struct target_type crypt_target = { .message = crypt_message, .merge = crypt_merge, .iterate_devices = crypt_iterate_devices, + .io_hints = crypt_io_hints, }; static int __init dm_crypt_init(void) |