From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: fsverity@lists.linux.dev, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] f2fs: use fsverity_verify_blocks() instead of fsverity_verify_page()
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:48:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260214204833.GA10472@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi60UWZ=kVayGKfrGURiX4aN6P4J_bNMOw_pSvUrxw1jw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:39:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 at 12:33, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > - if (fsverity_verify_page(dic->vi, rpage))
> > + if (fsverity_verify_blocks(dic->vi, page_folio(rpage),
> > + PAGE_SIZE, 0))
>
> This really is very wrong. It may be equivalent to the old code, but
> the old code was *also* wrong.
>
> If you use "page_folio()", you need to do the proper offsetting of the
> page inside the folio, unless the filesystem is purely using the old
> legacy "folio is the same as page", which is simply not true in f2fs.
>
> It might be true in this particular case, but considering that it was
> *NOT* true in another case I fixed up, I really don't want to see this
> same mistake done over and over again.
>
> So either it's the whole folio, in which case PAGE_SIZE is wrong.
>
> Or it really is PAGE_SIZE, in which case you need to use the proper
> offset within the folio.
>
> Don't take the old buggy garbage that was fsverity_verify_page() and
> repeat the bug when you remove it.
The reason I went with the direct conversion is that
f2fs_verify_cluster() clearly assumes small folios already, and indeed
it's called only with small folios. But sure, we can make that specific
line in it large-folio-aware.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-14 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-14 20:33 [PATCH 0/2] fsverity: remove fsverity_verify_page() Eric Biggers
2026-02-14 20:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] f2fs: use fsverity_verify_blocks() instead of fsverity_verify_page() Eric Biggers
2026-02-14 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-02-14 20:48 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-02-14 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-02-14 20:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] fsverity: remove fsverity_verify_page() Eric Biggers
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