On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:26:28AM -0800, Boris Burkov wrote: > This patchset provides support for fsverity in btrfs. > > At a high level, we store the verity descriptor and Merkle tree data > in the file system btree with the file's inode as the objectid, and > direct reads/writes to those items to implement the generic fsverity > interface required by fs/verity/. > > The first patch is a preparatory patch which adds a notion of > compat_flags to the btrfs_inode and inode_item in order to allow > enabling verity on a file without making the file system unmountable for > older kernels. (It runs afoul of the leaf corruption check otherwise) > > The second patch is the bulk of the fsverity implementation. It > implements the fsverity interface and adds verity checks for the typical > file reading case. > > The third patch cleans up the corner cases in readpage, covering inline > extents, preallocated extents, and holes. > > The fourth patch handles direct io of a veritied file by falling back to > buffered io. > > The fifth patch handles crashes mid-verity enable via orphan items >
Can you include information about how this was tested? Also, fsverity-utils works with btrfs as-is, correct? - Eric
