Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: define STATX_ATTR_VERITY

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On Oct 29, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a statx attribute bit STATX_ATTR_VERITY which will be set if the
> file has fs-verity enabled.  This is the statx() equivalent of
> FS_VERITY_FL which is returned by FS_IOC_GETFLAGS.
> 
> This is useful because it allows applications to check whether a file is
> a verity file without opening it.  Opening a verity file can be
> expensive because the fsverity_info is set up on open, which involves
> parsing metadata and optionally verifying a cryptographic signature.
> 
> This is analogous to how various other bits are exposed through both
> FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and statx(), e.g. the encrypt bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> include/linux/stat.h      | 3 ++-
> include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h
> index 765573dc17d659..528c4baad09146 100644
> --- a/include/linux/stat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/stat.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ struct kstat {
> 	 STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE |				\
> 	 STATX_ATTR_APPEND |				\
> 	 STATX_ATTR_NODUMP |				\
> -	 STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED				\
> +	 STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED |				\
> +	 STATX_ATTR_VERITY				\
> 	 )/* Attrs corresponding to FS_*_FL flags */
> 	u64		ino;
> 	dev_t		dev;
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> index 7b35e98d3c58b1..ad80a5c885d598 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ struct statx {
> #define STATX_ATTR_APPEND		0x00000020 /* [I] File is append-only */
> #define STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		0x00000040 /* [I] File is not to be dumped */
> #define STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		0x00000800 /* [I] File requires key to decrypt in fs */
> -
> #define STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		0x00001000 /* Dir: Automount trigger */
> +#define STATX_ATTR_VERITY		0x00100000 /* [I] Verity protected file */
> 
> 
> #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_STAT_H */
> --
> 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
> 


Cheers, Andreas





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