Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: define STATX_ATTR_VERITY

From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: define STATX_ATTR_VERITY
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:44:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191107014420.GD15212@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191029204141.145309-2-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:41:38PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> Add a statx attribute bit STATX_ATTR_VERITY which will be set if the
> file has fs-verity enabled.  This is the statx() equivalent of
> FS_VERITY_FL which is returned by FS_IOC_GETFLAGS.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/stat.h      | 3 ++-
>  include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h
> index 765573dc17d659..528c4baad09146 100644
> --- a/include/linux/stat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/stat.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ struct kstat {
>  	 STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE |				\
>  	 STATX_ATTR_APPEND |				\
>  	 STATX_ATTR_NODUMP |				\
> -	 STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED				\
> +	 STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED |				\
> +	 STATX_ATTR_VERITY				\
>  	 )/* Attrs corresponding to FS_*_FL flags */
>  	u64		ino;
>  	dev_t		dev;
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> index 7b35e98d3c58b1..ad80a5c885d598 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ struct statx {
>  #define STATX_ATTR_APPEND		0x00000020 /* [I] File is append-only */
>  #define STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		0x00000040 /* [I] File is not to be dumped */
>  #define STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		0x00000800 /* [I] File requires key to decrypt in fs */
> -
>  #define STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		0x00001000 /* Dir: Automount trigger */
> +#define STATX_ATTR_VERITY		0x00100000 /* [I] Verity protected file */

Any reason why this wasn't 0x2000?

If there's a manpage update that goes with this, then...
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D

>  
>  
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_STAT_H */
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
> 