On Wed, 5 May 2021, Melvin Vermeeren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:48:47 CEST Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > It doesn't matter if the device is discarded or not. If the metadata
> > constains the discard filler, dm-integrity won't check the checksum - so
> > the data can contain anything.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > The device after discard may contain random pattern (some SSDs really do)
> > - so when the metadata contains the discard filler, the data may contain
> > anything.
>
> So if an existing SSD is formatted with --no-wipe --data-device option and
> then opened with --integrity-recalculate all metadata will contain the
> discard
> filler with this patch.
>
> So then, all the current data in the drive is not checked for integrity
> because it contains discard filler. This means that integrity recalculation
> itself never takes place for existing data. Meaning that only newly written
> data to SSD device will actually have integrity protection.
>
> Is this correct?
Yes.
Mikulas
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Melvin Vermeeren
> Systems engineer
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