linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: use IS_VERITY() to check inode's fsverity status

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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:29:16 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: use IS_VERITY() to check inode's fsverity
 status

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:53:22AM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> > This commit now uses IS_VERITY() macro to check if fsverity is
> > enabled on an inode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch causes a massive number of fsverity tests.  I suspect it's
> due to a mismatch between the ext4's inode flags as opposed to the VFS
> inode's flags.  I'll take a closer look in the next day or two.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 						- Ted

It's missing the following to set S_VERITY during the
FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl:

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index ed933e64e95f..82b45cceb39b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1344,6 +1344,11 @@ static int ext4_set_verity(struct inode *inode, loff_t data_i_size)
 	err = ext4_reserve_inode_write(handle, inode, &iloc);
 	if (err == 0) {
 		ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_VERITY);
+		/*
+		 * Update inode->i_flags - S_VERITY will be enabled,
+		 * S_DAX may be disabled
+		 */
+		ext4_set_inode_flags(inode);
 		EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = data_i_size;
 		err = ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle, inode, &iloc);
 	}