Kernel 4.14: Using dm-verity with squashfs rootfs - mounting issue

[Pintu Agarwal]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 22:40, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com> wrote:

> > >
> > > Try to set up dm-verity with block size 512 bytes.
> > >
> > > I don't know what block size does squashfs use, but if the filesystem
> > > block size is smaller than dm-verity block size, it doesn't work.
> > >
> > Okay thank you so much for this clue,
> > It seems we are using 65536 as the squashfs block size:
>
> 65536 is the compression block size - it is unrelated to I/O block size.
>
> There's a config option SQUASHFS_4K_DEVBLK_SIZE. The documentation says
> that it uses by default 1K block size and if you enable this option, it
> uses 4K block size.
>
Okay it seems this config is set in our case:
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_4K_DEVBLK_SIZE=y
So, with this the squashfs and dm-verity block size exactly matches (4K)

> So, try to set it. Or try to reduce dm-verity block size down to 1K.
>
Okay we are trying this.
Thank you so much!!

Regards,
Pintu