On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 2/10/25 4:04 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Do forward error correction if metadata I/O fails.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
>
> Not directly related to this patch, but...
> please could you also increase the dm-verity version?
>
> I just implemented support for the errors-as-corruption
> dm-verity flags in veritysetup.
>
> The version of dm-verity stayed at 1.10 for a very long, and
> the IO error processing change was a functional change that we
> would like to detect.
> We cannot set version retrospectively, but at least now with other
> changes.
>
> (Veritysetup tries the requested flags; if activation fails,
> it displays a better error message based on the detected
> target version. That way it works even with backports.)
>
> Thanks,
> Milan
OK.
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
Do forward error correction if metadata I/O fails.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
---
drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c 2025-02-10
16:24:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c 2025-02-10 17:43:50.000000000
+0100
@@ -324,8 +324,22 @@ static int verity_verify_level(struct dm
&buf, bio->bi_ioprio);
}
- if (IS_ERR(data))
- return PTR_ERR(data);
+ if (IS_ERR(data)) {
+ r = PTR_ERR(data);
+ data = dm_bufio_new(v->bufio, hash_block, &buf);
+ if (IS_ERR(data))
+ return r;
+ if (verity_fec_decode(v, io, DM_VERITY_BLOCK_TYPE_METADATA,
+ hash_block, data) == 0) {
+ aux = dm_bufio_get_aux_data(buf);
+ aux->hash_verified = 1;
+ goto release_ok;
+ } else {
+ dm_bufio_release(buf);
+ dm_bufio_forget(v->bufio, hash_block);
+ return r;
+ }
+ }
aux = dm_bufio_get_aux_data(buf);
@@ -366,6 +380,7 @@ static int verity_verify_level(struct dm
}
}
+release_ok:
data += offset;
memcpy(want_digest, data, v->digest_size);
r = 0;
@@ -1761,7 +1776,7 @@ static struct target_type verity_target
.name = "verity",
/* Note: the LSMs depend on the singleton and immutable features */
.features = DM_TARGET_SINGLETON | DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE,
- .version = {1, 10, 0},
+ .version = {1, 11, 0},
.module = THIS_MODULE,
.ctr = verity_ctr,
.dtr = verity_dtr,
