Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux...

[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / device-mapper / verity.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
index e15bc1a..89fd8f9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Construction Parameters
 
     0 is the original format used in the Chromium OS.
       The salt is appended when hashing, digests are stored continuously and
-      the rest of the block is padded with zeros.
+      the rest of the block is padded with zeroes.
 
     1 is the current format that should be used for new devices.
       The salt is prepended when hashing and each digest is
-      padded with zeros to the power of two.
+      padded with zeroes to the power of two.
 
 <dev>
     This is the device containing data, the integrity of which needs to be
@@ -79,6 +79,37 @@ restart_on_corruption
     not compatible with ignore_corruption and requires user space support to
     avoid restart loops.
 
+ignore_zero_blocks
+    Do not verify blocks that are expected to contain zeroes and always return
+    zeroes instead. This may be useful if the partition contains unused blocks
+    that are not guaranteed to contain zeroes.
+
+use_fec_from_device <fec_dev>
+    Use forward error correction (FEC) to recover from corruption if hash
+    verification fails. Use encoding data from the specified device. This
+    may be the same device where data and hash blocks reside, in which case
+    fec_start must be outside data and hash areas.
+
+    If the encoding data covers additional metadata, it must be accessible
+    on the hash device after the hash blocks.
+
+    Note: block sizes for data and hash devices must match. Also, if the
+    verity <dev> is encrypted the <fec_dev> should be too.
+
+fec_roots <num>
+    Number of generator roots. This equals to the number of parity bytes in
+    the encoding data. For example, in RS(M, N) encoding, the number of roots
+    is M-N.
+
+fec_blocks <num>
+    The number of encoding data blocks on the FEC device. The block size for
+    the FEC device is <data_block_size>.
+
+fec_start <offset>
+    This is the offset, in <data_block_size> blocks, from the start of the
+    FEC device to the beginning of the encoding data.
+
+
 Theory of operation
 ===================
 
@@ -98,6 +129,11 @@ per-block basis. This allows for a lightweight hash computation on first read
 into the page cache. Block hashes are stored linearly, aligned to the nearest
 block size.
 
+If forward error correction (FEC) support is enabled any recovery of
+corrupted data will be verified using the cryptographic hash of the
+corresponding data. This is why combining error correction with
+integrity checking is essential.
+
 Hash Tree
 ---------