[PATCH 01/12] dm-integrity: use the nop integrity profile

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Jun 5 21:45:25 PDT 2024


On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 6/5/24 8:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Use the block layer built-in nop profile instead of reinventing it.
>
> As this is my "invention", I am pretty sure that "nop" profile was
> not available at the time I was prototyping AEAD dmcrypt extension.
> (It was months before we submitted it upstream - and then nobody
> apparently fixed it.)

Looking at the history the nop profile was moved from nvme to common
code to also support btt in 2015, dm-integrity was added in 2017.
So maybe you just missed it.  Anyway, I'm also happy to tone this
down a bit, it sounds a bit too aggressive..




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