From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Only call out to crc32c if necessary
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:52:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205155226.GA32031@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111128232642.19194.80905.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com>
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....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-28 23:26 [PATCH v2.1 00/22] ext4: Add metadata checksumming Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 01/22] ext4: Create a new BH_Verified flag to avoid unnecessary metadata validation Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 02/22] ext4: Create a rocompat flag for extended metadata checksumming Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 15:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-05 19:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 03/22] ext4: Record the checksum algorithm in use in the superblock Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 15:46 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-05 19:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <E0964BB6-793D-49AF-A2B0-20748C6DAE2B@dilger.ca>
2011-12-07 7:42 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-07 8:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Only call out to crc32c if necessary Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 15:52 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-12-05 19:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 05/22] ext4: Calculate and verify superblock checksum Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:26 ` [PATCH 06/22] ext4: Calculate and verify inode checksums Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 16:24 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-05 19:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 07/22] ext4: Create bitmap checksum helper functions Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 16:33 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-05 20:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 23:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-06 17:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-12-06 20:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 08/22] ext4: Calculate and verify checksums for inode bitmaps Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 09/22] ext4: Calculate and verify block bitmap checksum Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 10/22] ext4: Verify and calculate checksums for extent tree blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-05 16:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-05 19:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 11/22] ext4: Calculate and verify checksums for htree nodes Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 12/22] ext4: Calculate and verify checksums of directory leaf blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 13/22] ext4: Calculate and verify checksums of extended attribute blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:27 ` [PATCH 14/22] ext4: Add new feature to make block group checksums use metadata_csum algorithm Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 15/22] ext4: Add checksums to the MMP block Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 16/22] jbd2: Update structure definitions and flags to support extended checksumming Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 17/22] jbd2: Grab a reference to the crc32c driver only when necessary Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 18/22] jbd2: Update structure definitions and flags to support extended checksumming Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 19/22] jbd2: Checksum revocation blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-12-12 15:39 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 20/22] jbd2: Checksum descriptor blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 21/22] jbd2: Checksum commit blocks Darrick J. Wong
2011-11-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 22/22] jbd2: Checksum data blocks that are stored in the journal Darrick J. Wong
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