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    dm-verity: provide dma_alignment limit in io_hints · 09d14308
    Eric Biggers authored
    Since Linux v6.1, some filesystems support submitting direct I/O that is
    aligned to only dma_alignment instead of the logical_block_size
    alignment that was required before.  I/O that is not aligned to the
    logical_block_size is difficult to handle in device-mapper targets that
    do cryptographic processing of data, as it makes the units of data that
    are hashed or encrypted possibly be split across pages, creating rarely
    used and rarely tested edge cases.
    
    As such, dm-crypt and dm-integrity have already opted out of this by
    setting dma_alignment to 'logical_block_size - 1'.
    
    Although dm-verity does have code that handles these cases (or at least
    is intended to do so), supporting direct I/O with such a low amount of
    alignment is not really useful on dm-verity devices.  So, opt dm-verity
    out of it too so that it's not necessary to handle these edge cases.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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