On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:24:49AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > 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 > Ping? Michael, can you apply this man-pages patch? - Eric
