Re: [PATCH v2 05/23] fsverity: make fsverity_verify_folio() accept folio's offset and size

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On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 12:36:42PM +0200, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 08:30:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 04:53:01PM +0200, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> > > Not the whole folio always need to be verified by fs-verity (e.g.
> > > with 1k blocks). Use passed folio's offset and size.
> > 
> > Why can't those callers just call fsverity_verify_blocks directly?
> > 
> 
> They can. Calling _verify_folio with explicit offset; size appeared
> more clear to me. But I'm ok with dropping this patch to have full
> folio verify function.

Well, there is no point in a wrapper if it has the exact same signature
and functionality as the functionality being wrapped.

That being said, right now fsverity_verify_folio, so it might make sense
to either rename it, or rename fsverity_verify_blocks to
fsverity_verify_folio.  But that's really a question for Eric.



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