linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/7] fsverity: Remove filesystem specific build config option

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Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:01:28 +0530
From:   Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] fsverity: Remove filesystem specific build config option

On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 6:15:30 AM IST Eric Biggers wrote:
> Hi Chandan,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:53:24AM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> > In order to have a common code base for fsverity "post read" processing
> > for all filesystems which support per-file verity, this commit removes
> > filesystem specific build config option (e.g. CONFIG_EXT4_FS_VERITY) and
> > replaces it with a build option (i.e. CONFIG_FS_VERITY) whose value
> > affects all the filesystems making use of fsverity.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Like the corresponding fscrypt patch, this is missing changing
> 
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_VERITY)
> 
> in include/linux/fs.h to
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_FS_VERITY
> 
> There are also references to the filesystem-specific config options in
> Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst that need to be updated.
> 
> I also suggest updating the Kconfig help text for CONFIG_FS_VERITY and
> CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION to mention the supported filesystems, similar to how
> CONFIG_QUOTA lists the filesystems it supports.
> 

I will fix this one too.

-- 
chandan