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Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
"fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly
for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.
This pull request includes:
(a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.
(b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.
Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI
to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of
other things were cleaned up too.
fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool
("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and
f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown
interest in using fs-verity too.
I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing
tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next
since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I
found myself and folded in fixes for.
Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity"
* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
f2fs: add fs-verity support
ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
ext4: add fs-verity read support
ext4: add basic fs-verity support
fs-verity: support builtin file signatures
fs-verity: add SHA-512 support
fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl
fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl
fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()
fs-verity: add the hook for file ->setattr()
fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open()
fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields
fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing
fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
fs-verity: add UAPI header
fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry
fs-verity: add a documentation file
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