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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst index 50b47a6d9ea1..6dc5772037ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ need this ioctl. This ioctl takes in a pointer to the following structure:: #define FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_MERKLE_TREE 1 + #define FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR 2 struct fsverity_read_metadata_arg { __u64 metadata_type; @@ -252,6 +253,9 @@ This ioctl takes in a pointer to the following structure:: the same order that their hashes are themselves hashed. See `Merkle tree`_ for more information. +- ``FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR`` reads the fs-verity + descriptor. See `fs-verity descriptor`_. + The semantics are similar to those of ``pread()``. ``offset`` specifies the offset in bytes into the metadata item to read from, and ``length`` specifies the maximum number of bytes to read from the |