Re: [PATCH 0/7] dm-verity cleanups and optimizations

[Eric Biggers]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 11:48:28PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series contains some cleanups and optimizations for dm-verity that
> I've split out from my multibuffer hashing series
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20240621165922.77672-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/.
> 
> This series does not depend on any crypto API changes, so it can be
> applied right away.
> 
> Eric Biggers (7):
>   dm-verity: move hash algorithm setup into its own function
>   dm-verity: move data hash mismatch handling into its own function
>   dm-verity: make real_digest and want_digest fixed-length
>   dm-verity: provide dma_alignment limit in io_hints
>   dm-verity: always "map" the data blocks
>   dm-verity: make verity_hash() take dm_verity_io instead of
>     ahash_request
>   dm-verity: hash blocks with shash import+finup when possible
> 
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c    |  32 +--
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.h    |   6 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 461 ++++++++++++++++------------------
>  drivers/md/dm-verity.h        |  39 ++-
>  4 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 296 deletions(-)

Thanks for applying this, Mikulas!

I sent out a new version of "dm-verity: provide dma_alignment limit in io_hints"
to address Christoph's comment.

Also, I noticed that when you applied the patches, patch 2 somehow ended up with
the same commit message as patch 1.  Can you fix that?  Thanks!

- Eric