On 10/07/2011 10:02 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:10:59AM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:This patch adds a new attribute flag EXT4_SECRM_RANDOM_FL. During a secure delete, this flag will cause blocks to be overwritten with random data instead of zeros. Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson<achender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- :100644 100644 e717dfd... db54ce4... M fs/ext4/ext4.h fs/ext4/ext4.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index e717dfd..db54ce4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -350,17 +350,18 @@ struct flex_groups { #define EXT4_EXTENTS_FL 0x00080000 /* Inode uses extents */ #define EXT4_EA_INODE_FL 0x00200000 /* Inode used for large EA */ #define EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL 0x00400000 /* Blocks allocated beyond EOF */ +#define EXT4_SECRM_RANDOM_FL 0x10000000 /* Use random data instead of zeros */ #define EXT4_RESERVED_FL 0x80000000 /* reserved for ext4 lib */ -#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x004BDFFF /* User visible flags */ -#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE 0x004B80FF /* User modifiable flags */ +#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x104BDFFF /* User visible flags */ +#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE 0x104B80FF /* User modifiable flags */Is there a reason why this #define is 0x104BDFFF instead of a bunch of flags or'd together in a manner similar to the one below it? --D
That's a really good suggestion, and I dont see any reason why it needs to be a hard number like that. I will definitely add that in if we decide to keep the EXT4_SECRM_RANDOM_FL flag. Thx!
/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */ #define EXT4_FL_INHERITED (EXT4_SECRM_FL | EXT4_UNRM_FL | EXT4_COMPR_FL |\ EXT4_SYNC_FL | EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL | EXT4_APPEND_FL |\ EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL |\ EXT4_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\ - EXT4_NOTAIL_FL | EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL) + EXT4_NOTAIL_FL | EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_SECRM_RANDOM_FL) /* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */ #define EXT4_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_TOPDIR_FL)) @@ -407,6 +408,7 @@ enum { EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS = 19, /* Inode uses extents */ EXT4_INODE_EA_INODE = 21, /* Inode used for large EA */ EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS = 22, /* Blocks allocated beyond EOF */ + EXT4_INODE_SECRM_RANDOM = 28, /* Use random data instead of zeros */ EXT4_INODE_RESERVED = 31, /* reserved for ext4 lib */ }; @@ -453,6 +455,7 @@ static inline void ext4_check_flag_values(void) CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EXTENTS); CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EA_INODE); CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EOFBLOCKS); + CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(SECRM_RANDOM); CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(RESERVED); } -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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