1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)"
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.
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.
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).
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.
37 config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES
38 bool "FS Verity builtin signature support"
40 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
42 This option adds support for in-kernel verification of
43 fs-verity builtin signatures.
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.