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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst index 42a0b6dd9e0b..a95536b6443c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst @@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ To do so, check for FS_VERITY_FL (0x00100000) in the returned flags. The verity flag is not settable via FS_IOC_SETFLAGS. You must use FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY instead, since parameters must be provided. +statx +----- + +Since Linux v5.5, the statx() system call sets STATX_ATTR_VERITY if +the file has fs-verity enabled. This can perform better than +FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY because it doesn't require +opening the file, and opening verity files can be expensive. + Accessing verity files ====================== @@ -398,7 +406,7 @@ pages have been read into the pagecache. (See `Verifying data`_.) ext4 ---- -ext4 supports fs-verity since Linux TODO and e2fsprogs v1.45.2. +ext4 supports fs-verity since Linux v5.4 and e2fsprogs v1.45.2. To create verity files on an ext4 filesystem, the filesystem must have been formatted with ``-O verity`` or had ``tune2fs -O verity`` run on @@ -434,7 +442,7 @@ also only supports extent-based files. f2fs ---- -f2fs supports fs-verity since Linux TODO and f2fs-tools v1.11.0. +f2fs supports fs-verity since Linux v5.4 and f2fs-tools v1.11.0. To create verity files on an f2fs filesystem, the filesystem must have been formatted with ``-O verity``. |