linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 04/11] fsverity: start consolidating pagecache code

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:12:41 +0100
From: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...hat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, 
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, 
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, fsverity@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] fsverity: start consolidating pagecache code

On 2026-01-22 09:22:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ext4 and f2fs are largely using the same code to read a page full
> of Merkle tree blocks from the page cache, and the upcoming xfs
> fsverity support would add another copy.
> 
> Move the ext4 code to fs/verity/ and use it in f2fs as well.  For f2fs
> this removes the previous f2fs-specific error injection, but otherwise
> the behavior remains unchanged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

looks good to me
Reviewed-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...hat.com>

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- Andrey