fs-verity: use mempool for hash requests
When initializing an fs-verity hash algorithm, also initialize a mempool
that contains a single preallocated hash request object. Then replace
the direct calls to ahash_request_alloc() and ahash_request_free() with
allocating and freeing from this mempool.
This eliminates the possibility of the allocation failing, which is
desirable for the I/O path.
This doesn't cause deadlocks because there's no case where multiple hash
requests are needed at a time to make forward progress.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231175545.20709-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
diff --git a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
index ab9cfdd..74768cf 100644
--- a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
+++ b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <crypto/sha.h>
#include <linux/fsverity.h>
+#include <linux/mempool.h>
struct ahash_request;
@@ -37,11 +38,12 @@ struct fsverity_hash_alg {
const char *name; /* crypto API name, e.g. sha256 */
unsigned int digest_size; /* digest size in bytes, e.g. 32 for SHA-256 */
unsigned int block_size; /* block size in bytes, e.g. 64 for SHA-256 */
+ mempool_t req_pool; /* mempool with a preallocated hash request */
};
/* Merkle tree parameters: hash algorithm, initial hash state, and topology */
struct merkle_tree_params {
- const struct fsverity_hash_alg *hash_alg; /* the hash algorithm */
+ struct fsverity_hash_alg *hash_alg; /* the hash algorithm */
const u8 *hashstate; /* initial hash state or NULL */
unsigned int digest_size; /* same as hash_alg->digest_size */
unsigned int block_size; /* size of data and tree blocks */
@@ -115,14 +117,18 @@ struct fsverity_signed_digest {
extern struct fsverity_hash_alg fsverity_hash_algs[];
-const struct fsverity_hash_alg *fsverity_get_hash_alg(const struct inode *inode,
- unsigned int num);
-const u8 *fsverity_prepare_hash_state(const struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
+struct fsverity_hash_alg *fsverity_get_hash_alg(const struct inode *inode,
+ unsigned int num);
+struct ahash_request *fsverity_alloc_hash_request(struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
+ gfp_t gfp_flags);
+void fsverity_free_hash_request(struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
+ struct ahash_request *req);
+const u8 *fsverity_prepare_hash_state(struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
const u8 *salt, size_t salt_size);
int fsverity_hash_page(const struct merkle_tree_params *params,
const struct inode *inode,
struct ahash_request *req, struct page *page, u8 *out);
-int fsverity_hash_buffer(const struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
+int fsverity_hash_buffer(struct fsverity_hash_alg *alg,
const void *data, size_t size, u8 *out);
void __init fsverity_check_hash_algs(void);