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| author | Patrik Torstensson <totte@google.com> | 2018-03-22 18:18:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2018-04-03 15:04:29 -0400 |
| commit | 843f38d382b1ca2f6f4ae2ef7c35933e6319ffbb (patch) | |
| tree | a056d2fe94b2bb94ee075b8d1ae6f03d87b81382 /drivers/md/dm-verity.h | |
| parent | 45354f1eb67224669a1de94dbfcb8bb226be1f74 (diff) | |
dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once
This allows platforms that are CPU/memory contrained to verify data
blocks only the first time they are read from the data device, rather
than every time. As such, it provides a reduced level of security
because only offline tampering of the data device's content will be
detected, not online tampering.
Hash blocks are still verified each time they are read from the hash
device, since verification of hash blocks is less performance critical
than data blocks, and a hash block will not be verified any more after
all the data blocks it covers have been verified anyway.
This option introduces a bitset that is used to check if a block has
been validated before or not. A block can be validated more than once
as there is no thread protection for the bitset.
These changes were developed and tested on entry-level Android Go
devices.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Torstensson <totte@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-verity.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-verity.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity.h b/drivers/md/dm-verity.h index 69f9a298f8c9..3441c10b840c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity.h +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity.h @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct dm_verity { sector_t hash_level_block[DM_VERITY_MAX_LEVELS]; struct dm_verity_fec *fec; /* forward error correction */ + unsigned long *validated_blocks; /* bitset blocks validated */ }; struct dm_verity_io { |