ext4: allow verity with fs block size < PAGE_SIZE

Now that the needed changes have been made to fs/buffer.c, ext4 is ready
to support the verity feature when the filesystem block size is less
than the page size.  So remove the mount-time check that prevented this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223203638.41293-12-ebiggers@kernel.org

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
index 948d202..c0c8a25 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
@@ -497,9 +497,11 @@ To create verity files on an ext4 filesystem, the filesystem must have
 been formatted with ``-O verity`` or had ``tune2fs -O verity`` run on
 it.  "verity" is an RO_COMPAT filesystem feature, so once set, old
 kernels will only be able to mount the filesystem readonly, and old
-versions of e2fsck will be unable to check the filesystem.  Moreover,
-currently ext4 only supports mounting a filesystem with the "verity"
-feature when its block size is equal to PAGE_SIZE (often 4096 bytes).
+versions of e2fsck will be unable to check the filesystem.
+
+Originally, an ext4 filesystem with the "verity" feature could only be
+mounted when its block size was equal to the system page size
+(typically 4096 bytes).  In Linux v6.3, this limitation was removed.
 
 ext4 sets the EXT4_VERITY_FL on-disk inode flag on verity files.  It
 can only be set by `FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY`_, and it cannot be cleared.

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 260c1b3..b31db52 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5336,11 +5336,6 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
                }
        }
 
-       if (ext4_has_feature_verity(sb) && sb->s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) {
-               ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Unsupported blocksize for fs-verity");
-               goto failed_mount_wq;
-       }
-
        /*
         * Get the # of file system overhead blocks from the
         * superblock if present.