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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-19 02:59:14 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-19 02:59:14 +0300
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Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt
Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers: "fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification. This pull request includes: (a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation. (b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs. Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of other things were cleaned up too. fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android; most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool ("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown interest in using fs-verity too. I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I found myself and folded in fixes for. Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity" * tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt: f2fs: add fs-verity support ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity ext4: add fs-verity read support ext4: add basic fs-verity support fs-verity: support builtin file signatures fs-verity: add SHA-512 support fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages() fs-verity: add the hook for file ->setattr() fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open() fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS fs-verity: add UAPI header fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry fs-verity: add a documentation file
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+config FS_VERITY
+ bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)"
+ select CRYPTO
+ # SHA-256 is selected as it's intended to be the default hash algorithm.
+ # To avoid bloat, other wanted algorithms must be selected explicitly.
+ select CRYPTO_SHA256
+ help
+ This option enables fs-verity. fs-verity is the dm-verity
+ mechanism implemented at the file level. On supported
+ filesystems (currently EXT4 and F2FS), userspace can use an
+ ioctl to enable verity for a file, which causes the filesystem
+ to build a Merkle tree for the file. The filesystem will then
+ transparently verify any data read from the file against the
+ Merkle tree. The file is also made read-only.
+
+ This serves as an integrity check, but the availability of the
+ Merkle tree root hash also allows efficiently supporting
+ various use cases where normally the whole file would need to
+ be hashed at once, such as: (a) auditing (logging the file's
+ hash), or (b) authenticity verification (comparing the hash
+ against a known good value, e.g. from a digital signature).
+
+ fs-verity is especially useful on large files where not all
+ the contents may actually be needed. Also, fs-verity verifies
+ data each time it is paged back in, which provides better
+ protection against malicious disks vs. an ahead-of-time hash.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config FS_VERITY_DEBUG
+ bool "FS Verity debugging"
+ depends on FS_VERITY
+ help
+ Enable debugging messages related to fs-verity by default.
+
+ Say N unless you are an fs-verity developer.
+
+config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES
+ bool "FS Verity builtin signature support"
+ depends on FS_VERITY
+ select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
+ help
+ Support verifying signatures of verity files against the X.509
+ certificates that have been loaded into the ".fs-verity"
+ kernel keyring.
+
+ This is meant as a relatively simple mechanism that can be
+ used to provide an authenticity guarantee for verity files, as
+ an alternative to IMA appraisal. Userspace programs still
+ need to check that the verity bit is set in order to get an
+ authenticity guarantee.
+
+ If unsure, say N.