On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:36:37 -0800 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After each filesystem block (as represented by a buffer_head) has been > read from disk by block_read_full_folio(), verify it if needed. The > verification is done on the fsverity_read_workqueue. Also allow reads > of verity metadata past i_size, as required by ext4. Sigh. Do we reeeeealy need to mess with buffer.c in this fashion? Did any other subsystems feel a need to do this? > This is needed to support fsverity on ext4 filesystems where the > filesystem block size is less than the page size. Does any real person actually do this?
