[dm-devel] Intel QAT on A2SDi-8C-HLN4F causes massive data corruption with dm-crypt + xfs

[Kyle Sanderson]

> Makes sense. I'm going to send it upstream and Cc stable as documented
> in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
> I will then revert this change in the set that fixes the problem.

Did this go anywhere? I'm still not seeing it in any of the stable trees.

Kyle.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 9:50 AM Giovanni Cabiddu
<giovanni.cabiddu at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:44:53PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:24:42PM +0000, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 07:21:33PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > > If these algorithms have critical bugs, which it appears they do, then IMO it
> > > > would be better to disable them (either stop registering them, or disable the
> > > > whole driver) than to leave them available with low cra_priority.  Low
> > > > cra_priority doesn't guarantee that they aren't used.
> > > Thanks for your feedback Eric.
> > >
> > > Here is a patch that disables the registration of the algorithms in the
> > > QAT driver by setting, a config time, the number of HW queues (aka
> > > instances) to zero.
> > >
> > > ---8<---
> > > From: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu at intel.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] crypto: qat - disable registration of algorithms
> > > Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd - Co. Reg. #308263 - Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare - Ireland
> > >
> > > The implementations of aead and skcipher in the QAT driver do not
> > > support properly requests with the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG flag set.
> > > If the HW queue is full, the driver returns -EBUSY but does not enqueue
> > > the request.
> > > This can result in applications like dm-crypt waiting indefinitely for a
> > > completion of a request that was never submitted to the hardware.
> > >
> > > To avoid this problem, disable the registration of all skcipher and aead
> > > implementations in the QAT driver by setting the number of crypto
> > > instances to 0 at configuration time.
> > >
> > > This patch deviates from the original upstream solution, that prevents
> > > dm-crypt to use drivers registered with the flag
> > > CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, since a backport of that set to stable
> > > kernels may have a too wide effect.
> > >
> > > commit 7bcb2c99f8ed032cfb3f5596b4dccac6b1f501df upstream
> > > commit 2eb27c11937ee9984c04b75d213a737291c5f58c upstream
> > > commit fbb6cda44190d72aa5199d728797aabc6d2ed816 upstream
> > > commit b8aa7dc5c7535f9abfca4bceb0ade9ee10cf5f54 upstream
> > > commit cd74693870fb748d812867ba49af733d689a3604 upstream
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu at intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_crypto.c | 4 +---
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > Sounds good; is there any reason not to apply this upstream too, though?
> > You could revert it later as part of the patch series that fixes the driver.
> Makes sense. I'm going to send it upstream and Cc stable as documented
> in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
> I will then revert this change in the set that fixes the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Giovanni