1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3 config FS_VERITY 4 bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)" 5 select CRYPTO 6 select CRYPTO_HASH_INFO 7 # SHA-256 is implied as it's intended to be the default hash algorithm. 8 # To avoid bloat, other wanted algorithms must be selected explicitly. 9 # Note that CRYPTO_SHA256 denotes the generic C implementation, but 10 # some architectures provided optimized implementations of the same 11 # algorithm that may be used instead. In this case, CRYPTO_SHA256 may 12 # be omitted even if SHA-256 is being used. 13 imply CRYPTO_SHA256 14 help 15 This option enables fs-verity. fs-verity is the dm-verity 16 mechanism implemented at the file level. On supported 17 filesystems (currently ext4, f2fs, and btrfs), userspace can 18 use an ioctl to enable verity for a file, which causes the 19 filesystem to build a Merkle tree for the file. The filesystem 20 will then transparently verify any data read from the file 21 against the Merkle tree. The file is also made read-only. 22 23 This serves as an integrity check, but the availability of the 24 Merkle tree root hash also allows efficiently supporting 25 various use cases where normally the whole file would need to 26 be hashed at once, such as: (a) auditing (logging the file's 27 hash), or (b) authenticity verification (comparing the hash 28 against a known good value, e.g. from a digital signature). 29 30 fs-verity is especially useful on large files where not all 31 the contents may actually be needed. Also, fs-verity verifies 32 data each time it is paged back in, which provides better 33 protection against malicious disks vs. an ahead-of-time hash. 34 35 If unsure, say N. 36 37 config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES 38 bool "FS Verity builtin signature support" 39 depends on FS_VERITY 40 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 41 help 42 This option adds support for in-kernel verification of 43 fs-verity builtin signatures. 44 45 Please take great care before using this feature. It is not 46 the only way to do signatures with fs-verity, and the 47 alternatives (such as userspace signature verification, and 48 IMA appraisal) can be much better. For details about the 49 limitations of this feature, see 50 Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst. 51 52 If unsure, say N.
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