On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 13:19 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I originally chose the name "file measurement" to refer to the fs-verity > file digest to avoid confusion with traditional full-file digests or > with the bare root hash of the Merkle tree. > > But the name "file measurement" hasn't caught on, and usually people are > calling it something else, usually the "file digest". E.g. see > "struct fsverity_digest" and "struct fsverity_formatted_digest", the > libfsverity_compute_digest() and libfsverity_sign_digest() functions in > libfsverity, and the "fsverity digest" command. > > Having multiple names for the same thing is always confusing. > > So to hopefully avoid confusion in the future, rename > "fs-verity file measurement" to "fs-verity file digest". > > This leaves FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY as the only reference to "measure" in > the kernel, which makes some amount of sense since the ioctl is actively > "measuring" the file. > > I'll be renaming this in fsverity-utils too (though similarly the > 'fsverity measure' command, which is a wrapper for > FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY, will stay). > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst | 60 +++++++++++++------------- > fs/verity/enable.c | 6 +-- > fs/verity/fsverity_private.h | 12 +++--- > fs/verity/measure.c | 12 +++--- > fs/verity/open.c | 22 +++++----- > fs/verity/signature.c | 10 ++--- > 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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