Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 3 authors, 2019-06-19

Re: [PATCH v4 09/16] fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()

From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2019-06-15 14:48:51
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fscrypt, linux-fsdevel, linux-integrity

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 08:51:58AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
From: Eric Biggers <redacted>

Add functions that verify data pages that have been read from a
fs-verity file, against that file's Merkle tree.  These will be called
from filesystems' ->readpage() and ->readpages() methods.

Since data verification can block, a workqueue is provided for these
methods to enqueue verification work from their bio completion callback.

See the "Verifying data" section of
Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for more information.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
Looks good; you can add:

Reviewed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref]

						- Ted
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