linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3] fsverity: stop using PG

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Message-ID: <4b0a548a-5b04-24a6-944d-348d15605dd2@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:06:43 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fsverity: stop using PG_error to track error status

On 2022/11/24 6:19, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:21:06AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:58:07AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>>> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
>>>
>>> As a step towards freeing the PG_error flag for other uses, change ext4
>>> and f2fs to stop using PG_error to track verity errors.  Instead, if a
>>> verity error occurs, just mark the whole bio as failed.  The coarser
>>> granularity isn't really a problem since it isn't any worse than what
>>> the block layer provides, and errors from a multi-page readahead aren't
>>> reported to applications unless a single-page read fails too.
>>>
>>> f2fs supports compression, which makes the f2fs changes a bit more
>>> complicated than desired, but the basic premise still works.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> In v3, I made a small simplification to the f2fs changes.  I'm also only
>>> sending the fsverity patch now, since the fscrypt one is now upstream.
>>>
>>>   fs/ext4/readpage.c |  8 ++----
>>>   fs/f2fs/compress.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>>   fs/f2fs/data.c     | 48 +++++++++++++++++++---------------

Hi Eric,

Result of "grep PageError fs/f2fs/* -n"

...
fs/f2fs/gc.c:1364:      ClearPageError(page);
fs/f2fs/inline.c:177:   ClearPageError(page);
fs/f2fs/node.c:1649:    ClearPageError(page);
fs/f2fs/node.c:2078:            if (TestClearPageError(page))
fs/f2fs/segment.c:3406: ClearPageError(page);

Any plan to remove above PG_error flag operations? Maybe in a separated patch?

Thanks,

>>>   fs/verity/verify.c | 12 ++++-----
>>>   4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
>>
>> I've applied this to the fsverity tree for 6.2.
>>
>> Reviews would be greatly appreciated, of course.
>>
> 
> Jaegeuk and Chao, can I get a review or ack from one of you?
> 
> - Eric