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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst index 9ef7a7de6008..50b47a6d9ea1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ need this ioctl. This ioctl takes in a pointer to the following structure:: + #define FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_MERKLE_TREE 1 + struct fsverity_read_metadata_arg { __u64 metadata_type; __u64 offset; @@ -242,7 +244,13 @@ This ioctl takes in a pointer to the following structure:: __u64 __reserved; }; -``metadata_type`` specifies the type of metadata to read. +``metadata_type`` specifies the type of metadata to read: + +- ``FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_MERKLE_TREE`` reads the blocks of the + Merkle tree. The blocks are returned in order from the root level + to the leaf level. Within each level, the blocks are returned in + the same order that their hashes are themselves hashed. + See `Merkle tree`_ for more information. The semantics are similar to those of ``pread()``. ``offset`` specifies the offset in bytes into the metadata item to read from, and |