Re: [fsverity-utils PATCH v2 1/4] programs/fsverity: change default block size from PAGE_SIZE to 4096

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On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 12:56 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Even though the kernel currently only supports PAGE_SIZE == Merkle tree
> block size, PAGE_SIZE isn't a good default Merkle tree block size for
> fsverity-utils, since it means that if someone doesn't explicitly
> specify the block size, then the results of 'fsverity sign' and
> 'fsverity enable' will differ between different architectures.
> 
> So change the default Merkle tree block size to 4096, which is the most
> common PAGE_SIZE.  This will break anyone using the fsverity program
> without the --block-size option on an architecture with a non-4K page
> size.  But I don't think anyone is actually doing that yet anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  programs/cmd_digest.c |  2 +-
>  programs/cmd_enable.c |  2 +-
>  programs/cmd_sign.c   |  2 +-
>  programs/fsverity.c   | 14 --------------
>  programs/fsverity.h   |  1 -
>  5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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