[PATCH v6 0/6] define new fs integrity_read method

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Aug 16 06:34:10 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:43:58PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> 
> > To resolve this locking problem, this patch set introduces a new
> > ->integrity_read file operation method.  Until all filesystems
> > define the new ->integrity_read method, files that were previously
> > measured might not be currently measured and files that were
> > previously appraised might fail to be appraised properly.
> 
> Are there any such filesystems in mainline which are not getting an 
> integrity_read method in this patchset?

There are a few, mostly because we're pretty sure the previous integrity
code did the wrong thing for them - e.g. ocfs2 and gfs2 where locking
vs operations on other cluster nodes was missing, or NFS where in addition
to the above deadlocks were 100% reprodicible with current code.
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