Re: bio_integrity_verify() bug causing READ verify to be silently skipped

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>>>>> "nab" == Nicholas A Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

nab> Given that bio_integrity_verify() is using bio_for_each_segment(),
nab> the loop starts from the updated bio->bi_idx, and not a zero value,
nab> which ends up skipping individual bio segment calls to
nab> bi->verify_fn().

That's botched. Verify is meant to be called with the completed bytes
before the index is tampered with.


nab> The following patch changes bio_integrity_verify() to use
nab> bio_for_each_segment_all() instead of bio_for_each_segment() to
nab> ensure that the segment walk always starts from zero, regardless of
nab> the current bio->bi_idx value after bio_advance().

That breaks partial completion, though. I'll take a look at Kent's
changes...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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