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authorSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>2015-12-03 17:26:31 +0300
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2015-12-10 18:39:03 +0300
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downloadlinux-0cc37c2df4fa0aa702f9662edce4b7ce12c86b7a.tar.xz
dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature
If ignore_zero_blocks is enabled dm-verity will return zeroes for blocks matching a zero hash without validating the content. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ restart_on_corruption
not compatible with ignore_corruption and requires user space support to
avoid restart loops.
+ignore_zero_blocks
+ Do not verify blocks that are expected to contain zeroes and always return
+ zeroes instead. This may be useful if the partition contains unused blocks
+ that are not guaranteed to contain zeroes.
+
use_fec_from_device <fec_dev>
Use forward error correction (FEC) to recover from corruption if hash
verification fails. Use encoding data from the specified device. This