[PATCHv2 2/7] nvme: allow integrity on extended metadata formats

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Tue Feb 1 20:39:11 PST 2022


Keith,

> The block integrity subsystem knows how to construct protection
> information buffers with metadata beyond the protection information
> fields. Remove the driver restriction.
>
> Note, this can only work if the PI field appears first in the metadata,
> as the integrity subsystem doesn't calculate guard tags on preceding
> metadata.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

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