On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 06:12:16AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 01:27:00PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Nice hoist, though I wonder -- as an exported fs function, should we be
> > checking that the returned folio doesn't cover EOF?  Not that any of the
> > users actually check that returned merkle tree folios fit that
> > criterion.
> 
> As in past i_size because this is verity metadata?  I think per the
> last discussion that's only guranteed to be true, not the folio.  It
> might be useful to assert this, but it might be better for combine
> this with the work to use different on-disk vs in-memory offset
> and to consolidate all the offset magic.  Which is worthwhile,
> but І don't really want to add that in this series.

<nod> You're probably right that adding such a check would be better off
in whatever series formally defines the post-eof pagecache offset and
whatnot.

--D


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