From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:24:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200128192449.260550-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2020-01-28 19:25 UTC|newest]
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2020-01-28 19:24 Eric Biggers [this message]
2020-02-24 20:50 ` [man-pages PATCH v2] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY Eric Biggers
2020-03-12 8:26 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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