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

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Dec 07 2015 at  1:07pm -0500,
Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.)

There is no preemptive accessing/checking of the RS blocks.  Once a
parity is needed for a given block, due to some corruption, the RS block
will be accessed with:

fec_decode_bufs -> fec_read_parity() -> fec_decode_rs8() -> decode_rs8()

I'm not seeing any verification of the metadata in fec_read_parity() --
so it would seem that corrupt RS blocks would result in -EBADMSG being
returned from decode_rs8() (by virtue of incorrect parity being passed
to decode_rs8).

Sami (or others) am I right?