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| author | Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> | 2015-03-18 18:52:14 +0300 |
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| committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2015-04-15 19:10:22 +0300 |
| commit | 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a5391011a315f42e409a33d8238544451484c14 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0e0e32c16cfd2eeaf4fd4f16aa6cccd1333ce1e0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8.tar.xz | |
dm verity: add error handling modes for corrupted blocks
Add device specific modes to dm-verity to specify how corrupted
blocks should be handled. The following modes are defined:
- DM_VERITY_MODE_EIO is the default behavior, where reading a
corrupted block results in -EIO.
- DM_VERITY_MODE_LOGGING only logs corrupted blocks, but does
not block the read.
- DM_VERITY_MODE_RESTART calls kernel_restart when a corrupted
block is discovered.
In addition, each mode sends a uevent to notify userspace of
corruption and to allow further recovery actions.
The driver defaults to previous behavior (DM_VERITY_MODE_EIO)
and other modes can be enabled with an additional parameter to
the verity table.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt index 9884681535ee..64ccc5a079a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Construction Parameters <data_block_size> <hash_block_size> <num_data_blocks> <hash_start_block> <algorithm> <digest> <salt> + [<#opt_params> <opt_params>] <version> This is the type of the on-disk hash format. @@ -62,6 +63,22 @@ Construction Parameters <salt> The hexadecimal encoding of the salt value. +<#opt_params> + Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters, + the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. + Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments. + + Example of optional parameters section: + 1 ignore_corruption + +ignore_corruption + Log corrupted blocks, but allow read operations to proceed normally. + +restart_on_corruption + Restart the system when a corrupted block is discovered. This option is + not compatible with ignore_corruption and requires user space support to + avoid restart loops. + Theory of operation =================== |