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netfs: zero the tail of a short DIO/unbuffered readgrafted
The buffered read collector zero-fills the tail of a short read that stops below the inode's i_size (netfs_clear_unread()), so a read that races an extending write still returns the expected number of bytes. The non-buffered collector path does no such thing: it just records how much was transferred. Add the same zero-fill for the non-buffered case, gated on NETFS_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL: a subreq's source sets that flag when a short result from it is known to be safe to treat as a hole, as opposed to NETFS_SREQ_HIT_EOF, which means the read genuinely ran off the end of the file and should be reported short as-is. Only CLEAR_TAIL should zero-fill here; a real EOF must stay a real short read. No source currently sets CLEAR_TAIL on an unbuffered/DIO subrequest, so this is inert on its own -- a following change teaches cifs to set it in the one case that needs it. Fixes: e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item") Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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+==============
+dm-inlinecrypt
+==============
+
+Device-Mapper's "inlinecrypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices
+using the inline encryption hardware.
+
+For a more detailed description of inline encryption, see:
+https://docs.kernel.org/block/inline-encryption.html
+
+Parameters::
+
+ <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \
+ <offset> [<#opt_params> <opt_params>]
+
+<cipher>
+ Encryption cipher type.
+
+ The cipher specifications format is::
+
+ cipher
+
+ Examples::
+
+ aes-xts-plain64
+
+ The cipher type corresponds to the encryption modes supported by
+ inline crypto in the block layer. Currently, only
+ BLK_ENCRYPTION_MODE_AES_256_XTS (i.e. aes-xts-plain64) is supported.
+
+<key>
+ Key used for encryption. It is encoded either as a hexadecimal number
+ or it can be passed as <key_string> prefixed with single colon
+ character (':') for keys residing in kernel keyring service.
+ You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher.
+ Note that the size in bytes of a valid key must be in below range.
+
+ [BLK_CRYPTO_KEY_TYPE_RAW, BLK_CRYPTO_KEY_TYPE_HW_WRAPPED]
+
+<key_string>
+ The kernel keyring key is identified by string in following format:
+ <key_size>:<keyring_type>:<key_description>.
+
+<key_size>
+ The encryption key size in bytes. The kernel key payload size must match
+ the value passed in <key_size>.
+
+<keyring_type>
+ The type of the key inside the kernel keyring. It can be either 'logon',
+ or 'trusted' kernel key type.
+
+<key_description>
+ The kernel keyring key description inlinecrypt target should look for
+ when loading key of <keyring_type>.
+
+<iv_offset>
+ The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number
+ before creating the IV.
+
+<device path>
+ This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the
+ encrypted data. You can specify it as a path like /dev/xxx or a device
+ number <major>:<minor>.
+
+<offset>
+ Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins.
+
+<#opt_params>
+ Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters,
+ the optional parameters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero.
+ Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments.
+
+ Example of optional parameters section:
+ keytype:raw allow_discards sector_size:4096 iv_large_sectors
+
+<key_type>
+ The type of the key as seen by the block layer, either standard or
+ hardware-wrapped. The string is supplied in the table as <keytype:raw>
+ or <keytype:hw-wrapped>.
+
+allow_discards
+ Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the inlinecrypt
+ device. The default is to ignore discard requests.
+
+ WARNING: Assess the specific security risks carefully before enabling this
+ option. For example, allowing discards on encrypted devices may lead to
+ the leak of information about the ciphertext device (filesystem type,
+ used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the
+ device later.
+
+sector_size:<bytes>
+ Use <bytes> as the encryption unit instead of 512 bytes sectors.
+ This option can be in range 512 - 4096 bytes and must be power of two.
+ Virtual device will announce this size as a minimal IO and logical sector.
+
+iv_large_sectors
+ Use <sector_size>-based sector numbers for IV generation instead of
+ 512-byte sectors.
+
+ For dm-inlinecrypt, this flag must be specified when <sector_size>
+ is larger than 512 bytes. The legacy 512-byte-based IV behavior is
+ not supported.
+
+ When specified, if <sector_size> is 4096 bytes, plain64 IV for the
+ second sector will be 1, and <iv_offset> must be a multiple of
+ <sector_size> (in 512-byte units).
+
+Example scripts
+===============
+Currently, dm-inlinecrypt devices must be set up directly using dmsetup.
+There is no userspace support yet to integrate dm-inlinecrypt with LUKS
+or cryptsetup. In particular, cryptsetup currently only supports
+dm-crypt, and cannot be used to create dm-inlinecrypt mappings.
+
+The following examples demonstrate how to create dm-inlinecrypt devices
+using dmsetup
+
+::
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ # Create a inlinecrypt device using dmsetup
+ dmsetup create inlinecrypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` inlinecrypt aes-xts-plain64 babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 0 $1 0 1 keytype:raw"
+
+::
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ # Create a inlinecrypt device using dmsetup when encryption key is stored in keyring service
+ dmsetup create inlinecrypt2 --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` inlinecrypt aes-xts-plain64 :64:logon:fde:dminlinecrypt_test_key 0 0 $1 0 1 keytype:raw"
+