linux/Documentation/device-mapper
Patrik Torstensson 843f38d382 dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once
This allows platforms that are CPU/memory contrained to verify data
blocks only the first time they are read from the data device, rather
than every time.  As such, it provides a reduced level of security
because only offline tampering of the data device's content will be
detected, not online tampering.

Hash blocks are still verified each time they are read from the hash
device, since verification of hash blocks is less performance critical
than data blocks, and a hash block will not be verified any more after
all the data blocks it covers have been verified anyway.

This option introduces a bitset that is used to check if a block has
been validated before or not.  A block can be validated more than once
as there is no thread protection for the bitset.

These changes were developed and tested on entry-level Android Go
devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrik Torstensson <totte@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-04-03 15:04:29 -04:00
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cache-policies.txt dm cache: fix grammar in cache-policies.txt 2018-01-17 09:16:07 -05:00
cache.txt dm cache: Documentation: update default migration_throttling value 2018-01-30 16:55:47 -05:00
delay.txt
dm-crypt.txt
dm-flakey.txt
dm-integrity.txt
dm-io.txt
dm-log.txt
dm-queue-length.txt
dm-raid.txt dm raid: stop keeping raid set frozen altogether 2017-12-13 11:52:02 -05:00
dm-service-time.txt
dm-uevent.txt
dm-zoned.txt
era.txt
kcopyd.txt
linear.txt
log-writes.txt
persistent-data.txt
snapshot.txt dm snapshot: improve documentation relative to origin suspend requirements 2018-01-17 09:16:06 -05:00
statistics.txt
striped.txt
switch.txt
thin-provisioning.txt dm thin: extend thinpool status format string with omitted fields 2018-01-17 09:16:12 -05:00
unstriped.txt dm: add unstriped target 2018-01-17 09:16:00 -05:00
verity.txt dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once 2018-04-03 15:04:29 -04:00
zero.txt