Re: Hard system lock-ups when using encrypted swap and RAM is exhausted

Askar Safin <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:24:29 +0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.cryptsetup,dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>:
> So, this is what happened to you - the machine runs out of memory, it 
> needs to swap out some pages, dm-crypt encrypts the pages and generates 
> write bios, the write bios are directed to the loop device, the loop 
> device directs them to the filesystem, the filesystem attempts to allocate 
> more memory => deadlock.

Does similar thing happen in my case? I. e. swap on top of dm-integrity on
top of partition? Is my use case supported? (I'm not talking about
hibernation now, just about swap.)

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Askar Safin