From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Document the verity attribute for statx(), which was added in Linux 5.5. For more context, see the fs-verity documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity.html Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/statx.2 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2 index d2f1b07b8..d015ee73d 100644 --- a/man2/statx.2 +++ b/man2/statx.2 @@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ See .TP .B STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED A key is required for the file to be encrypted by the filesystem. +.TP +.B STATX_ATTR_VERITY +Since Linux 5.5: the file has fs-verity enabled. It cannot be written to, and +all reads from it will be verified against a cryptographic hash that covers the +entire file, e.g. via a Merkle tree. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and -- 2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog
