Re: : suggestion needed for dm-verity data block corrupted issue

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Hi,

This is regarding the behavior of dm-verity on Android. Could you please provide your valuable suggestions?

[Issue]:
During development on android device after some usage of device , I could see the following logs from dm-verity driver

[dmesg]:
dm-verity: data block 77897 is corrupted

I think this indicates that data block 77897 in partition on which dm-verity is enabled is corrupted. Means some hash mismatch occurred with the predefined hash.

[Debugging]:
The /dev/block/dm-0 is mounted successfully on ext4 partition.

So I thought it could be a filesystem corruption issue, but it does not seems to be.
I compared the system partition of the device in which the log is observed and compared it with the same S/W in which the issue is not observed.

There seems to be no difference.

I am suspecting that it can be due to OS corruption or some bug in dm-verity module.

Could you please suggest how to proceed further?

P.S.:
In my understanding correct about dm-verity in above case. At runtime, dm-verity calculates the hash of each block when its read and verifies it by traversing the precalculated hash tree. As dm-verity depends on a precalculated hash tree over all blocks of a device, the underlying device must be mounted read-only in order for verification to be possible. In system partition dm-verity is enabled that hold system files, so system files can be changed during OS updates through OTA. Any other change indicates either OS(RAM) or disk(eMMC) corruption, or that a malicious program is trying to modify the OS or masquerade as a system file.

Thanks in advance !

Best Regards
KK

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