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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-04-02 21:27:59 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-04-02 21:27:59 -0700 |
commit | 5014bebee0cffda14fafae5a2534d08120b7b9e8 (patch) | |
tree | cdeb23d10c019240dd207d86ed0b9a3024972838 /Documentation | |
parent | 447d2d272e4e0c7cd9dfc6aeeadad9d70b3fb1ef (diff) | |
parent | 9c565428788fb9b49066f94ab7b10efc686a0a4c (diff) |
Merge tag 'for-6.15/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mikulas Patocka:
- dm-crypt: switch to using the crc32 library
- dm-verity, dm-integrity, dm-crypt: documentation improvement
- dm-vdo fixes
- dm-stripe: enable inline crypto passthrough
- dm-integrity: set ti->error on memory allocation failure
- dm-bufio: remove unused return value
- dm-verity: do forward error correction on metadata I/O errors
- dm: fix unconditional IO throttle caused by REQ_PREFLUSH
- dm cache: prevent BUG_ON by blocking retries on failed device resumes
- dm cache: support shrinking the origin device
- dm: restrict dm device size to 2^63-512 bytes
- dm-delay: support zoned devices
- dm-verity: support block number limits for different ioprio classes
- dm-integrity: fix non-constant-time tag verification (security bug)
- dm-verity, dm-ebs: fix prefetch-vs-suspend race
* tag 'for-6.15/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (27 commits)
dm-ebs: fix prefetch-vs-suspend race
dm-verity: fix prefetch-vs-suspend race
dm-integrity: fix non-constant-time tag verification
dm-verity: support block number limits for different ioprio classes
dm-delay: support zoned devices
dm: restrict dm device size to 2^63-512 bytes
dm cache: support shrinking the origin device
dm cache: prevent BUG_ON by blocking retries on failed device resumes
dm vdo indexer: reorder uds_request to reduce padding
dm: fix unconditional IO throttle caused by REQ_PREFLUSH
dm vdo: rework processing of loaded refcount byte arrays
dm vdo: remove remaining ring references
dm-verity: do forward error correction on metadata I/O errors
dm-bufio: remove unused return value
dm-integrity: set ti->error on memory allocation failure
dm: Enable inline crypto passthrough for striped target
dm vdo slab-depot: read refcount blocks in large chunks at load time
dm vdo vio-pool: allow variable-sized metadata vios
dm vdo vio-pool: support pools with multiple data blocks per vio
dm vdo vio-pool: add a pool pointer to pooled_vio
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst | 20 |
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst index 9f8139ff97d6..4467f6d4b632 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst @@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ integrity:<bytes>:<type> integrity for the encrypted device. The additional space is then used for storing authentication tag (and persistent IV if needed). +integrity_key_size:<bytes> + Optionally set the integrity key size if it differs from the digest size. + It allows the use of wrapped key algorithms where the key size is + independent of the cryptographic key size. + sector_size:<bytes> Use <bytes> as the encryption unit instead of 512 bytes sectors. This option can be in range 512 - 4096 bytes and must be power of two. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index d8a5f14d0e3c..c2e18ecc065c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ Target arguments: allowed. This mode is useful for data recovery if the device cannot be activated in any of the other standard modes. + I - inline mode - in this mode, dm-integrity will store integrity + data directly in the underlying device sectors. + The underlying device must have an integrity profile that + allows storing user integrity data and provides enough + space for the selected integrity tag. 5. the number of additional arguments diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst index a65c1602cb23..8c3f1f967a3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst @@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ panic_on_corruption Panic the device when a corrupted block is discovered. This option is not compatible with ignore_corruption and restart_on_corruption. +restart_on_error + Restart the system when an I/O error is detected. + This option can be combined with the restart_on_corruption option. + +panic_on_error + Panic the device when an I/O error is detected. This option is + not compatible with the restart_on_error option but can be combined + with the panic_on_corruption option. + ignore_zero_blocks Do not verify blocks that are expected to contain zeroes and always return zeroes instead. This may be useful if the partition contains unused blocks @@ -142,8 +151,15 @@ root_hash_sig_key_desc <key_description> already in the secondary trusted keyring. try_verify_in_tasklet - If verity hashes are in cache, verify data blocks in kernel tasklet instead - of workqueue. This option can reduce IO latency. + If verity hashes are in cache and the IO size does not exceed the limit, + verify data blocks in bottom half instead of workqueue. This option can + reduce IO latency. The size limits can be configured via + /sys/module/dm_verity/parameters/use_bh_bytes. The four parameters + correspond to limits for IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE, IOPRIO_CLASS_RT, + IOPRIO_CLASS_BE and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE in turn. + For example: + <none>,<rt>,<be>,<idle> + 4096,4096,4096,4096 Theory of operation =================== |