Commit 84fb7ca4 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers

ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity

Document the format of verity files on ext4, and the corresponding inode
and superblock flags.
Reviewed-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
parent 22cfe4b4
......@@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ The ``i_flags`` field is a combination of these values:
- This is a huge file (EXT4\_HUGE\_FILE\_FL).
* - 0x80000
- Inode uses extents (EXT4\_EXTENTS\_FL).
* - 0x100000
- Verity protected file (EXT4\_VERITY\_FL).
* - 0x200000
- Inode stores a large extended attribute value in its data blocks
(EXT4\_EA\_INODE\_FL).
......@@ -299,9 +301,9 @@ The ``i_flags`` field is a combination of these values:
- Reserved for ext4 library (EXT4\_RESERVED\_FL).
* -
- Aggregate flags:
* - 0x4BDFFF
* - 0x705BDFFF
- User-visible flags.
* - 0x4B80FF
* - 0x604BC0FF
- User-modifiable flags. Note that while EXT4\_JOURNAL\_DATA\_FL and
EXT4\_EXTENTS\_FL can be set with setattr, they are not in the kernel's
EXT4\_FL\_USER\_MODIFIABLE mask, since it needs to handle the setting of
......
......@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ order.
.. include:: bigalloc.rst
.. include:: inlinedata.rst
.. include:: eainode.rst
.. include:: verity.rst
......@@ -696,6 +696,8 @@ the following:
(RO\_COMPAT\_READONLY)
* - 0x2000
- Filesystem tracks project quotas. (RO\_COMPAT\_PROJECT)
* - 0x8000
- Verity inodes may be present on the filesystem. (RO\_COMPAT\_VERITY)
.. _super_def_hash:
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Verity files
------------
ext4 supports fs-verity, which is a filesystem feature that provides
Merkle tree based hashing for individual readonly files. Most of
fs-verity is common to all filesystems that support it; see
:ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst <fsverity>` for the
fs-verity documentation. However, the on-disk layout of the verity
metadata is filesystem-specific. On ext4, the verity metadata is
stored after the end of the file data itself, in the following format:
- Zero-padding to the next 65536-byte boundary. This padding need not
actually be allocated on-disk, i.e. it may be a hole.
- The Merkle tree, as documented in
:ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
<fsverity_merkle_tree>`, with the tree levels stored in order from
root to leaf, and the tree blocks within each level stored in their
natural order.
- Zero-padding to the next filesystem block boundary.
- The verity descriptor, as documented in
:ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst <fsverity_descriptor>`,
with optionally appended signature blob.
- Zero-padding to the next offset that is 4 bytes before a filesystem
block boundary.
- The size of the verity descriptor in bytes, as a 4-byte little
endian integer.
Verity inodes have EXT4_VERITY_FL set, and they must use extents, i.e.
EXT4_EXTENTS_FL must be set and EXT4_INLINE_DATA_FL must be clear.
They can have EXT4_ENCRYPT_FL set, in which case the verity metadata
is encrypted as well as the data itself.
Verity files cannot have blocks allocated past the end of the verity
metadata.
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