Re: [PATCH] dm-crypt: unlock allocation mutex before retry

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/8/26 10:18 PM, Runyu Xiao wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> index 608b617fb817..aabb9a5f85a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> @@ -1674,6 +1674,8 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(struct dm_crypt_io *io, unsigned int size)
>   		if (!pages) {
>   			crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone);
>   			bio_put(clone);
> +			if (unlikely(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
> +				mutex_unlock(&cc->bio_alloc_lock);
>   			gfp_mask |= __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
>   			order = 0;
>   			goto retry;

Please refactor crypt_alloc_buffer() such that context analysis can be
enabled instead of making this function more complex. One way to do this
is by moving the crypt_alloc_buffer() code that occurs between the
mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock() calls into a helper function.

See also https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/context-analysis.html.

Thanks,

Bart.
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