[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] dm verity: add support for error correction

Milan Broz mbroz at redhat.com
Mon Dec 7 18:07:17 UTC 2015


On 12/07/2015 05:31 PM, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 09:58:14AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>> Great.  Moving forward it'd be awesome if you could work to get your
>> verity FEC support regression tests into cryptsetup's tests.
> 
> Sure. These tests would basically involve generating a valid disk
> image, corrupting it up to the theoretical maximum, and verifying that
> dm-verity can correct it.

Does the code handle/report even the same type of data corruption
for RS blocks? Or this is just silently ignored until
data area corruption happens?
Sorry, I did not study the code here, I am just curious :)

(IOW I mean if data are ok but recovery metadata is corrupted.)

Milan




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