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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst index cb845e8e5435..13e4b18e5dbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst @@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ the file has fs-verity enabled. This can perform better than FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY because it doesn't require opening the file, and opening verity files can be expensive. +.. _accessing_verity_files: + Accessing verity files ====================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index eb7d2c88ddec..b63e0db03631 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -405,6 +405,53 @@ when a "metacopy" file in one of the lower layers above it, has a "redirect" to the absolute path of the "lower data" file in the "data-only" lower layer. +fs-verity support +---------------------- + +During metadata copy up of a lower file, if the source file has +fs-verity enabled and overlay verity support is enabled, then the +digest of the lower file is added to the "trusted.overlay.metacopy" +xattr. This is then used to verify the content of the lower file +each the time the metacopy file is opened. + +When a layer containing verity xattrs is used, it means that any such +metacopy file in the upper layer is guaranteed to match the content +that was in the lower at the time of the copy-up. If at any time +(during a mount, after a remount, etc) such a file in the lower is +replaced or modified in any way, access to the corresponding file in +overlayfs will result in EIO errors (either on open, due to overlayfs +digest check, or from a later read due to fs-verity) and a detailed +error is printed to the kernel logs. For more details of how fs-verity +file access works, see :ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +<accessing_verity_files>`. + +Verity can be used as a general robustness check to detect accidental +changes in the overlayfs directories in use. But, with additional care +it can also give more powerful guarantees. For example, if the upper +layer is fully trusted (by using dm-verity or something similar), then +an untrusted lower layer can be used to supply validated file content +for all metacopy files. If additionally the untrusted lower +directories are specified as "Data-only", then they can only supply +such file content, and the entire mount can be trusted to match the +upper layer. + +This feature is controlled by the "verity" mount option, which +supports these values: + +- "off": + The metacopy digest is never generated or used. This is the + default if verity option is not specified. +- "on": + Whenever a metacopy files specifies an expected digest, the + corresponding data file must match the specified digest. When + generating a metacopy file the verity digest will be set in it + based on the source file (if it has one). +- "require": + Same as "on", but additionally all metacopy files must specify a + digest (or EIO is returned on open). This means metadata copy up + will only be used if the data file has fs-verity enabled, + otherwise a full copy-up is used. + Sharing and copying layers -------------------------- |