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    dm: fix deadlock when swapping to encrypted device · a666e5c0
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    The system would deadlock when swapping to a dm-crypt device. The reason
    is that for each incoming write bio, dm-crypt allocates memory that holds
    encrypted data. These excessive allocations exhaust all the memory and the
    result is either deadlock or OOM trigger.
    
    This patch limits the number of in-flight swap bios, so that the memory
    consumed by dm-crypt is limited. The limit is enforced if the target set
    the "limit_swap_bios" variable and if the bio has REQ_SWAP set.
    
    Non-swap bios are not affected becuase taking the semaphore would cause
    performance degradation.
    
    This is similar to request-based drivers - they will also block when the
    number of requests is over the limit.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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