We have a scenario for a VM where a VM is running in the host Linux using KVM. 
We want to expose verity protected rootfs to the VM. This rootfs clearly needs 
to be RO. However, we also want to expose it as a GPT partition. In order to do 
this we are attaching two small files before and after the rootfs. The files 
use linear mapping and get mapped to the same /dev/mapper/XX device that has a 
verity partition. These two files contain the partition mappings (primary and 
backup) for GPT. From the VMs perspective, it sees one device (/dev/mapper/xx) 
as a GPT device with rootfs.

The challenge we are getting into is that dm-verity kernel implementation 
explicitly prohibits mixing linear and verity mapping and forces the 
/dev/mapper/xx device to be RO and our needs are exactly the opposite.

Has anyone seen this scenario before? Any suggestions?

Thanks


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