linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Only call out to crc32c if necessary

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Date:	Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:38:59 -0800
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Only call out to crc32c if necessary

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:52:26AM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:26:43PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > +	/* Load the checksum driver */
> > +	if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb,
> > +				       EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM)) {
> > +		sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
> > +		if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
> > +			ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
> > +			sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
> > +			goto failed_mount;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> 
> Unless the crypto engine printk's a message if the crc32c algorithm is
> not available (perhaps even if it does), it's probably going to be a
> good idea to issue an ext4_msg() saying that we're failing because we
> couldn't load the crc32c crypto module.  Otherwise the user will get a
> mysterious failure (including a message from mount to check 'dmesg |
> tail'), and then when they look at the kernel messages, they won't see
> what might have gone wrong, and then they'll send a complaint to
> ext3-users or linux-ext4....

Ok.

--D

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