Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: fix race of pending_pages in decompression

[Daeho Jeong]

> Are you sure?  I thought that compression (and encryption) apply to the whole
> file, including any Merkle tree blocks past i_size.

This "dic" structure is only for "de"compression, so we don't need to
worry about going beyond i_size case.

> Also, even if you include the i_size check, it's still wrong to check
> fsverity_active() in the middle of the I/O because FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY can
> execute concurrently, causing fsverity_active() to return false at the beginning
> of the I/O and true later in the I/O.  It needs to be checked only once, at the
> beginning...

Got it. Our previous implementation didn't consider this case. Need to fix this.

Thanks,