Re: [RFC PATCH 07/11] xfs: disable direct read path for fs-verity sealed files

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On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 08:18:07AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 06:29:31PM +0100, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> > The direct path is not supported on verity files. Attempts to use direct
> > I/O path on such files should fall back to buffered I/O path.
> 
> Just curious: why?  What prevents us from running the hash function
> over the user pages in direct I/O?
> 

hmm, not sure if there are any technical obstacles (probably no),
but as fs-verity subsystem doesn't deal with direct i/o, I went the
same path.

-- 
- Andrey




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