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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sami Tolvanen 602d1657c6 dm verity fec: fix block calculation
do_div was replaced with div64_u64 at some point, causing a bug with
block calculation due to incompatible semantics of the two functions.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Fixes: a739ff3f54 ("dm verity: add support for forward error correction")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-07-01 23:29:08 -04:00
Mike Snitzer 30187e1d48 dm: rename target's per_bio_data_size to per_io_data_size
Request-based DM will also make use of per_bio_data_size.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22 22:34:37 -05:00
Sami Tolvanen 0cc37c2df4 dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature
If ignore_zero_blocks is enabled dm-verity will return zeroes for blocks
matching a zero hash without validating the content.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-12-10 10:39:03 -05:00
Sami Tolvanen a739ff3f54 dm verity: add support for forward error correction
Add support for correcting corrupted blocks using Reed-Solomon.

This code uses RS(255, N) interleaved across data and hash
blocks. Each error-correcting block covers N bytes evenly
distributed across the combined total data, so that each byte is a
maximum distance away from the others. This makes it possible to
recover from several consecutive corrupted blocks with relatively
small space overhead.

In addition, using verity hashes to locate erasures nearly doubles
the effectiveness of error correction. Being able to detect
corrupted blocks also improves performance, because only corrupted
blocks need to corrected.

For a 2 GiB partition, RS(255, 253) (two parity bytes for each
253-byte block) can correct up to 16 MiB of consecutive corrupted
blocks if erasures can be located, and 8 MiB if they cannot, with
16 MiB space overhead.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-12-10 10:39:03 -05:00