dm: fix deadlock when swapping to encrypted device

commit a666e5c05e upstream.

The system would deadlock when swapping to a dm-crypt device. The reason
is that for each incoming write bio, dm-crypt allocates memory that holds
encrypted data. These excessive allocations exhaust all the memory and the
result is either deadlock or OOM trigger.

This patch limits the number of in-flight swap bios, so that the memory
consumed by dm-crypt is limited. The limit is enforced if the target set
the "limit_swap_bios" variable and if the bio has REQ_SWAP set.

Non-swap bios are not affected becuase taking the semaphore would cause
performance degradation.

This is similar to request-based drivers - they will also block when the
number of requests is over the limit.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Mikulas Patocka
2021-02-10 15:26:23 -05:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent eb8128c5bb
commit 1f145073b1
4 changed files with 70 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -325,6 +325,11 @@ struct dm_target {
* whether or not its underlying devices have support.
*/
bool discards_supported:1;
/*
* Set if we need to limit the number of in-flight bios when swapping.
*/
bool limit_swap_bios:1;
};
void *dm_per_bio_data(struct bio *bio, size_t data_size);