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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst | 68 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst | 6 |
4 files changed, 47 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst index 805a1e9ea3a5..849d5b119eb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst @@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ which is 1024 bytes long: - s\_padding2 - * - 0x54 + - \_\_be32 + - s\_num\_fc\_blocks + - Number of fast commit blocks in the journal. + * - 0x58 - \_\_u32 - s\_padding[42] - @@ -310,6 +314,8 @@ The journal incompat features are any combination of the following: - This journal uses v3 of the checksum on-disk format. This is the same as v2, but the journal block tag size is fixed regardless of the size of block numbers. (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_CSUM\_V3) + * - 0x20 + - Journal has fast commit blocks. (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT) .. _jbd2_checksum_type: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst index 93e55d7c1d40..2eb1ab20498d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst @@ -596,6 +596,13 @@ following: - Sparse Super Block, v2. If this flag is set, the SB field s\_backup\_bgs points to the two block groups that contain backup superblocks (COMPAT\_SPARSE\_SUPER2). + * - 0x400 + - Fast commits supported. Although fast commits blocks are + backward incompatible, fast commit blocks are not always + present in the journal. If fast commit blocks are present in + the journal, JBD2 incompat feature + (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT) gets + set (COMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT). .. _super_incompat: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst index 895e9711ed88..e0204a23e997 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ automatically verified against the file's Merkle tree. Reads of any corrupted data, including mmap reads, will fail. Userspace can use another ioctl to retrieve the root hash (actually -the "file measurement", which is a hash that includes the root hash) -that fs-verity is enforcing for the file. This ioctl executes in -constant time, regardless of the file size. +the "fs-verity file digest", which is a hash that includes the Merkle +tree root hash) that fs-verity is enforcing for the file. This ioctl +executes in constant time, regardless of the file size. fs-verity is essentially a way to hash a file in constant time, subject to the caveat that reads which would violate the hash will @@ -177,9 +177,10 @@ FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY can fail with the following errors: FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY --------------------- -The FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl retrieves the measurement of a verity -file. The file measurement is a digest that cryptographically -identifies the file contents that are being enforced on reads. +The FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl retrieves the digest of a verity file. +The fs-verity file digest is a cryptographic digest that identifies +the file contents that are being enforced on reads; it is computed via +a Merkle tree and is different from a traditional full-file digest. This ioctl takes in a pointer to a variable-length structure:: @@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ On success, 0 is returned and the kernel fills in the structure as follows: - ``digest_algorithm`` will be the hash algorithm used for the file - measurement. It will match ``fsverity_enable_arg::hash_algorithm``. + digest. It will match ``fsverity_enable_arg::hash_algorithm``. - ``digest_size`` will be the size of the digest in bytes, e.g. 32 for SHA-256. (This can be redundant with ``digest_algorithm``.) - ``digest`` will be the actual bytes of the digest. @@ -257,25 +258,24 @@ non-verity one, with the following exceptions: with EIO (for read()) or SIGBUS (for mmap() reads). - If the sysctl "fs.verity.require_signatures" is set to 1 and the - file's verity measurement is not signed by a key in the fs-verity - keyring, then opening the file will fail. See `Built-in signature - verification`_. + file is not signed by a key in the fs-verity keyring, then opening + the file will fail. See `Built-in signature verification`_. Direct access to the Merkle tree is not supported. Therefore, if a verity file is copied, or is backed up and restored, then it will lose its "verity"-ness. fs-verity is primarily meant for files like executables that are managed by a package manager. -File measurement computation -============================ +File digest computation +======================= This section describes how fs-verity hashes the file contents using a -Merkle tree to produce the "file measurement" which cryptographically -identifies the file contents. This algorithm is the same for all -filesystems that support fs-verity. +Merkle tree to produce the digest which cryptographically identifies +the file contents. This algorithm is the same for all filesystems +that support fs-verity. Userspace only needs to be aware of this algorithm if it needs to -compute the file measurement itself, e.g. in order to sign the file. +compute fs-verity file digests itself, e.g. in order to sign files. .. _fsverity_merkle_tree: @@ -325,26 +325,22 @@ can't a distinguish a large file from a small second file whose data is exactly the top-level hash block of the first file. Ambiguities also arise from the convention of padding to the next block boundary. -To solve this problem, the verity file measurement is actually -computed as a hash of the following structure, which contains the -Merkle tree root hash as well as other fields such as the file size:: +To solve this problem, the fs-verity file digest is actually computed +as a hash of the following structure, which contains the Merkle tree +root hash as well as other fields such as the file size:: struct fsverity_descriptor { __u8 version; /* must be 1 */ __u8 hash_algorithm; /* Merkle tree hash algorithm */ __u8 log_blocksize; /* log2 of size of data and tree blocks */ __u8 salt_size; /* size of salt in bytes; 0 if none */ - __le32 sig_size; /* must be 0 */ + __le32 __reserved_0x04; /* must be 0 */ __le64 data_size; /* size of file the Merkle tree is built over */ __u8 root_hash[64]; /* Merkle tree root hash */ __u8 salt[32]; /* salt prepended to each hashed block */ __u8 __reserved[144]; /* must be 0's */ }; -Note that the ``sig_size`` field must be set to 0 for the purpose of -computing the file measurement, even if a signature was provided (or -will be provided) to `FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY`_. - Built-in signature verification =============================== @@ -359,20 +355,20 @@ kernel. Specifically, it adds support for: certificates from being added. 2. `FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY`_ accepts a pointer to a PKCS#7 formatted - detached signature in DER format of the file measurement. On - success, this signature is persisted alongside the Merkle tree. + detached signature in DER format of the file's fs-verity digest. + On success, this signature is persisted alongside the Merkle tree. Then, any time the file is opened, the kernel will verify the - file's actual measurement against this signature, using the - certificates in the ".fs-verity" keyring. + file's actual digest against this signature, using the certificates + in the ".fs-verity" keyring. 3. A new sysctl "fs.verity.require_signatures" is made available. When set to 1, the kernel requires that all verity files have a - correctly signed file measurement as described in (2). + correctly signed digest as described in (2). -File measurements must be signed in the following format, which is -similar to the structure used by `FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY`_:: +fs-verity file digests must be signed in the following format, which +is similar to the structure used by `FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY`_:: - struct fsverity_signed_digest { + struct fsverity_formatted_digest { char magic[8]; /* must be "FSVerity" */ __le16 digest_algorithm; __le16 digest_size; @@ -421,8 +417,8 @@ can only be set by `FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY`_, and it cannot be cleared. ext4 also supports encryption, which can be used simultaneously with fs-verity. In this case, the plaintext data is verified rather than -the ciphertext. This is necessary in order to make the file -measurement meaningful, since every file is encrypted differently. +the ciphertext. This is necessary in order to make the fs-verity file +digest meaningful, since every file is encrypted differently. ext4 stores the verity metadata (Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor) past the end of the file, starting at the first 64K boundary beyond @@ -592,8 +588,8 @@ weren't already directly answered in other parts of this document. :Q: Isn't fs-verity useless because the attacker can just modify the hashes in the Merkle tree, which is stored on-disk? :A: To verify the authenticity of an fs-verity file you must verify - the authenticity of the "file measurement", which is basically the - root hash of the Merkle tree. See `Use cases`_. + the authenticity of the "fs-verity file digest", which + incorporates the root hash of the Merkle tree. See `Use cases`_. :Q: Isn't fs-verity useless because the attacker can just replace a verity file with a non-verity one? diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst index 5a5f70b4063e..e18f90ffc6fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst @@ -136,10 +136,8 @@ Fast commits ~~~~~~~~~~~~ JBD2 to also allows you to perform file-system specific delta commits known as -fast commits. In order to use fast commits, you first need to call -:c:func:`jbd2_fc_init` and tell how many blocks at the end of journal -area should be reserved for fast commits. Along with that, you will also need -to set following callbacks that perform correspodning work: +fast commits. In order to use fast commits, you will need to set following +callbacks that perform correspodning work: `journal->j_fc_cleanup_cb`: Cleanup function called after every full commit and fast commit. |