On Oct 4, 2023 Fan Wu <wufan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The device-mapper has a flag to mark targets as singleton, which is a
> required flag for immutable targets. Without this flag, multiple
> dm-verity targets can be added to a mapped device, which has no
> practical use cases and will let dm_table_get_immutable_target return
> NULL. This patch adds the missing flag, restricting only one
> dm-verity target per mapped device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1-v10:
> + Not present
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
This seems reasonable to me and matches with other users of
DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE.
Alasdair, Mike, can we get an ACK on this?
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index 26adcfea0302..80673b66c194 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ int dm_verity_get_root_digest(struct dm_target *ti, u8 **root_digest, unsigned i
>
> static struct target_type verity_target = {
> .name = "verity",
> - .features = DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE,
> + .features = DM_TARGET_SINGLETON | DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE,
> .version = {1, 9, 0},
> .module = THIS_MODULE,
> .ctr = verity_ctr,
> --
> 2.25.1
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