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<title>dm crypt: fix error return code in crypt_ctr()</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T14:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>weiyongjun1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T11:24:26+00:00</published>
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Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the mempool_create_kmalloc_pool()
error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes: ef43aa38063a6 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;weiyongjun1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the mempool_create_kmalloc_pool()
error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes: ef43aa38063a6 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;weiyongjun1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: wipe kernel key copy after IV initialization</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T14:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Kozina</name>
<email>okozina@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T15:30:32+00:00</published>
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Loading key via kernel keyring service erases the internal
key copy immediately after we pass it in crypto layer. This is
wrong because IV is initialized later and we use wrong key
for the initialization (instead of real key there's just zeroed
block).

The bug may cause data corruption if key is loaded via kernel keyring
service first and later same crypt device is reactivated using exactly
same key in hexbyte representation, or vice versa. The bug (and fix)
affects only ciphers using following IVs: essiv, lmk and tcw.

Fixes: c538f6ec9f56 ("dm crypt: add ability to use keys from the kernel key retention service")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina &lt;okozina@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Loading key via kernel keyring service erases the internal
key copy immediately after we pass it in crypto layer. This is
wrong because IV is initialized later and we use wrong key
for the initialization (instead of real key there's just zeroed
block).

The bug may cause data corruption if key is loaded via kernel keyring
service first and later same crypt device is reactivated using exactly
same key in hexbyte representation, or vice versa. The bug (and fix)
affects only ciphers using following IVs: essiv, lmk and tcw.

Fixes: c538f6ec9f56 ("dm crypt: add ability to use keys from the kernel key retention service")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina &lt;okozina@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: fix crash by adding missing check for auth key size</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T14:08:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milan Broz</name>
<email>gmazyland@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T21:48:59+00:00</published>
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If dm-crypt uses authenticated mode with separate MAC, there are two
concatenated part of the key structure - key(s) for encryption and
authentication key.

Add a missing check for authenticated key length.  If this key length is
smaller than actually provided key, dm-crypt now properly fails instead
of crashing.

Fixes: ef43aa3806 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Reported-by: Salah Coronya &lt;salahx@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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If dm-crypt uses authenticated mode with separate MAC, there are two
concatenated part of the key structure - key(s) for encryption and
authentication key.

Add a missing check for authenticated key length.  If this key length is
smaller than actually provided key, dm-crypt now properly fails instead
of crashing.

Fixes: ef43aa3806 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Reported-by: Salah Coronya &lt;salahx@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: allow unaligned bv_offset</title>
<updated>2017-11-10T20:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T15:35:57+00:00</published>
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When slub_debug is enabled kmalloc returns unaligned memory. XFS uses
this unaligned memory for its buffers (if an unaligned buffer crosses a
page, XFS frees it and allocates a full page instead - see the function
xfs_buf_allocate_memory).

dm-crypt checks if bv_offset is aligned on page size and these checks
fail with slub_debug and XFS.

Fix this bug by removing the bv_offset checks. Switch to checking if
bv_len is aligned instead of bv_offset (this check should be sufficient
to prevent overruns if a bio with too small bv_len is received).

Fixes: 8f0009a22517 ("dm crypt: optionally support larger encryption sector size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont &lt;bonbons@sysophe.eu&gt;
Tested-by: Bruno Prémont &lt;bonbons@sysophe.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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When slub_debug is enabled kmalloc returns unaligned memory. XFS uses
this unaligned memory for its buffers (if an unaligned buffer crosses a
page, XFS frees it and allocates a full page instead - see the function
xfs_buf_allocate_memory).

dm-crypt checks if bv_offset is aligned on page size and these checks
fail with slub_debug and XFS.

Fix this bug by removing the bv_offset checks. Switch to checking if
bv_len is aligned instead of bv_offset (this check should be sufficient
to prevent overruns if a bio with too small bv_len is received).

Fixes: 8f0009a22517 ("dm crypt: optionally support larger encryption sector size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont &lt;bonbons@sysophe.eu&gt;
Tested-by: Bruno Prémont &lt;bonbons@sysophe.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: reject sector_size feature if device length is not aligned to it</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T14:49:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milan Broz</name>
<email>gmazyland@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-13T13:45:56+00:00</published>
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If a crypt mapping uses optional sector_size feature, additional
restrictions to mapped device segment size must be applied in
constructor, otherwise the device activation will fail later.

Fixes: 8f0009a225 ("dm crypt: optionally support larger encryption sector size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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If a crypt mapping uses optional sector_size feature, additional
restrictions to mapped device segment size must be applied in
constructor, otherwise the device activation will fail later.

Fixes: 8f0009a225 ("dm crypt: optionally support larger encryption sector size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: fix memory leak in crypt_ctr_cipher_old()</title>
<updated>2017-09-28T16:19:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffy Chen</name>
<email>jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-27T12:28:57+00:00</published>
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Fix memory leak of cipher_api.

Fixes: 33d2f09fcb35 (dm crypt: introduce new format of cipher with "capi:" prefix)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen &lt;jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Fix memory leak of cipher_api.

Fixes: 33d2f09fcb35 (dm crypt: introduce new format of cipher with "capi:" prefix)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen &lt;jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T20:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-14T20:43:16+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups

 - Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity

 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
   integrity

 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads

 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion

 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes

 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
   abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.

* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction
  dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
  dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
  dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
  dm log writes: fix &gt;512b sectorsize support
  dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
  dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
  dm: constify argument arrays
  dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
  dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
  dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
  dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
  dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
  dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups

 - Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity

 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
   integrity

 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads

 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion

 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes

 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
   abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.

* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction
  dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
  dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
  dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
  dm log writes: fix &gt;512b sectorsize support
  dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
  dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
  dm: constify argument arrays
  dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
  dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
  dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
  dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
  dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
  dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: constify argument arrays</title>
<updated>2017-08-28T15:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T18:32:45+00:00</published>
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The arrays of 'struct dm_arg' are never modified by the device-mapper
core, so constify them so that they are placed in .rodata.

(Exception: the args array in dm-raid cannot be constified because it is
allocated on the stack and modified.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The arrays of 'struct dm_arg' are never modified by the device-mapper
core, so constify them so that they are placed in .rodata.

(Exception: the args array in dm-raid cannot be constified because it is
allocated on the stack and modified.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:10:32+00:00</published>
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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