1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)"
6 # SHA-256 is implied as it's intended to be the default hash algorithm.
7 # To avoid bloat, other wanted algorithms must be selected explicitly.
8 # Note that CRYPTO_SHA256 denotes the generic C implementation, but
9 # some architectures provided optimized implementations of the same
10 # algorithm that may be used instead. In this case, CRYPTO_SHA256 may
11 # be omitted even if SHA-256 is being used.
14 This option enables fs-verity. fs-verity is the dm-verity
15 mechanism implemented at the file level. On supported
16 filesystems (currently EXT4 and F2FS), userspace can use an
17 ioctl to enable verity for a file, which causes the filesystem
18 to build a Merkle tree for the file. The filesystem will then
19 transparently verify any data read from the file against the
20 Merkle tree. The file is also made read-only.
22 This serves as an integrity check, but the availability of the
23 Merkle tree root hash also allows efficiently supporting
24 various use cases where normally the whole file would need to
25 be hashed at once, such as: (a) auditing (logging the file's
26 hash), or (b) authenticity verification (comparing the hash
27 against a known good value, e.g. from a digital signature).
29 fs-verity is especially useful on large files where not all
30 the contents may actually be needed. Also, fs-verity verifies
31 data each time it is paged back in, which provides better
32 protection against malicious disks vs. an ahead-of-time hash.
36 config FS_VERITY_DEBUG
37 bool "FS Verity debugging"
40 Enable debugging messages related to fs-verity by default.
42 Say N unless you are an fs-verity developer.
44 config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES
45 bool "FS Verity builtin signature support"
47 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
49 Support verifying signatures of verity files against the X.509
50 certificates that have been loaded into the ".fs-verity"
53 This is meant as a relatively simple mechanism that can be
54 used to provide an authenticity guarantee for verity files, as
55 an alternative to IMA appraisal. Userspace programs still
56 need to check that the verity bit is set in order to get an
57 authenticity guarantee.