This patchset exposes the verity bit (a.k.a. FS_VERITY_FL) via statx(). This is useful because it allows applications to check whether a file is a verity file without opening it. Opening a verity file can be expensive because the fsverity_info is set up on open, which involves parsing metadata and optionally verifying a cryptographic signature.
This is analogous to how various other bits are exposed through both FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and statx(), e.g. the encrypt bit. This patchset applies to v5.4-rc5. Eric Biggers (4): statx: define STATX_ATTR_VERITY ext4: support STATX_ATTR_VERITY f2fs: support STATX_ATTR_VERITY docs: fs-verity: mention statx() support Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst | 8 ++++++++ fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 ++++- fs/f2fs/file.c | 5 ++++- include/linux/stat.h | 3 ++- include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 2 +- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel
