fs-verity: use mempool for hash requests
When initializing an fs-verity hash algorithm, also initialize a mempool that contains a single preallocated hash request object. Then replace the direct calls to ahash_request_alloc() and ahash_request_free() with allocating and freeing from this mempool. This eliminates the possibility of the allocation failing, which is desirable for the I/O path. This doesn't cause deadlocks because there's no case where multiple hash requests are needed at a time to make forward progress. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231175545.20709-1-ebiggers@kernel.orgReviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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