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* [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY
@ 2020-01-28 19:24 Eric Biggers
  2020-02-24 20:50 ` Eric Biggers
  2020-03-12  8:26 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Biggers @ 2020-01-28 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtk.manpages
  Cc: linux-man, linux-fscrypt, linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Document the verity attribute for statx(), which was added in
Linux 5.5.

For more context, see the fs-verity documentation:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity.html

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 man2/statx.2 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2
index d2f1b07b8..d015ee73d 100644
--- a/man2/statx.2
+++ b/man2/statx.2
@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ See
 .TP
 .B STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED
 A key is required for the file to be encrypted by the filesystem.
+.TP
+.B STATX_ATTR_VERITY
+Since Linux 5.5: the file has fs-verity enabled.  It cannot be written to, and
+all reads from it will be verified against a cryptographic hash that covers the
+entire file, e.g. via a Merkle tree.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
-- 
2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog


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* Re: [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY
  2020-01-28 19:24 [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY Eric Biggers
@ 2020-02-24 20:50 ` Eric Biggers
  2020-03-12  8:26 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Biggers @ 2020-02-24 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtk.manpages
  Cc: linux-man, linux-fscrypt, linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:24:49AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> Document the verity attribute for statx(), which was added in
> Linux 5.5.
> 
> For more context, see the fs-verity documentation:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>  man2/statx.2 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2
> index d2f1b07b8..d015ee73d 100644
> --- a/man2/statx.2
> +++ b/man2/statx.2
> @@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ See
>  .TP
>  .B STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED
>  A key is required for the file to be encrypted by the filesystem.
> +.TP
> +.B STATX_ATTR_VERITY
> +Since Linux 5.5: the file has fs-verity enabled.  It cannot be written to, and
> +all reads from it will be verified against a cryptographic hash that covers the
> +entire file, e.g. via a Merkle tree.
>  .SH RETURN VALUE
>  On success, zero is returned.
>  On error, \-1 is returned, and
> -- 
> 2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog
> 

Ping?  Michael, can you apply this man-pages patch?

- Eric

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* Re: [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY
  2020-01-28 19:24 [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY Eric Biggers
  2020-02-24 20:50 ` Eric Biggers
@ 2020-03-12  8:26 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2020-03-12  8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Biggers
  Cc: mtk.manpages, linux-man, linux-fscrypt, linux-ext4,
	linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel

Hello Eric,

On 1/28/20 8:24 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> Document the verity attribute for statx(), which was added in
> Linux 5.5.
> 
> For more context, see the fs-verity documentation:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity.html

Thanks for the patch! Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>  man2/statx.2 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2
> index d2f1b07b8..d015ee73d 100644
> --- a/man2/statx.2
> +++ b/man2/statx.2
> @@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ See
>  .TP
>  .B STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED
>  A key is required for the file to be encrypted by the filesystem.
> +.TP
> +.B STATX_ATTR_VERITY
> +Since Linux 5.5: the file has fs-verity enabled.  It cannot be written to, and
> +all reads from it will be verified against a cryptographic hash that covers the
> +entire file, e.g. via a Merkle tree.
>  .SH RETURN VALUE
>  On success, zero is returned.
>  On error, \-1 is returned, and
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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