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-rw-r--r--fs/verity/Kconfig16
-rw-r--r--fs/verity/enable.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/verity/open.c8
-rw-r--r--fs/verity/read_metadata.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/verity/signature.c8
5 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/verity/Kconfig b/fs/verity/Kconfig
index a7ffd718f171..e1036e535352 100644
--- a/fs/verity/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/verity/Kconfig
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES
depends on FS_VERITY
select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
help
- Support verifying signatures of verity files against the X.509
- certificates that have been loaded into the ".fs-verity"
- kernel keyring.
+ This option adds support for in-kernel verification of
+ fs-verity builtin signatures.
- This is meant as a relatively simple mechanism that can be
- used to provide an authenticity guarantee for verity files, as
- an alternative to IMA appraisal. Userspace programs still
- need to check that the verity bit is set in order to get an
- authenticity guarantee.
+ Please take great care before using this feature. It is not
+ the only way to do signatures with fs-verity, and the
+ alternatives (such as userspace signature verification, and
+ IMA appraisal) can be much better. For details about the
+ limitations of this feature, see
+ Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst.
If unsure, say N.
diff --git a/fs/verity/enable.c b/fs/verity/enable.c
index bd86b25ac084..c284f46d1b53 100644
--- a/fs/verity/enable.c
+++ b/fs/verity/enable.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int enable_verity(struct file *filp,
}
desc->salt_size = arg->salt_size;
- /* Get the signature if the user provided one */
+ /* Get the builtin signature if the user provided one */
if (arg->sig_size &&
copy_from_user(desc->signature, u64_to_user_ptr(arg->sig_ptr),
arg->sig_size)) {
diff --git a/fs/verity/open.c b/fs/verity/open.c
index f0383bef86ea..1db5106a9c38 100644
--- a/fs/verity/open.c
+++ b/fs/verity/open.c
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ out_err:
/*
* Compute the file digest by hashing the fsverity_descriptor excluding the
- * signature and with the sig_size field set to 0.
+ * builtin signature and with the sig_size field set to 0.
*/
static int compute_file_digest(const struct fsverity_hash_alg *hash_alg,
struct fsverity_descriptor *desc,
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int compute_file_digest(const struct fsverity_hash_alg *hash_alg,
/*
* Create a new fsverity_info from the given fsverity_descriptor (with optional
- * appended signature), and check the signature if present. The
+ * appended builtin signature), and check the signature if present. The
* fsverity_descriptor must have already undergone basic validation.
*/
struct fsverity_info *fsverity_create_info(const struct inode *inode,
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ static bool validate_fsverity_descriptor(struct inode *inode,
}
/*
- * Read the inode's fsverity_descriptor (with optional appended signature) from
- * the filesystem, and do basic validation of it.
+ * Read the inode's fsverity_descriptor (with optional appended builtin
+ * signature) from the filesystem, and do basic validation of it.
*/
int fsverity_get_descriptor(struct inode *inode,
struct fsverity_descriptor **desc_ret)
diff --git a/fs/verity/read_metadata.c b/fs/verity/read_metadata.c
index 2aefc5565152..f58432772d9e 100644
--- a/fs/verity/read_metadata.c
+++ b/fs/verity/read_metadata.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int fsverity_read_descriptor(struct inode *inode,
if (res)
return res;
- /* don't include the signature */
+ /* don't include the builtin signature */
desc_size = offsetof(struct fsverity_descriptor, signature);
desc->sig_size = 0;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int fsverity_read_signature(struct inode *inode,
}
/*
- * Include only the signature. Note that fsverity_get_descriptor()
+ * Include only the builtin signature. fsverity_get_descriptor()
* already verified that sig_size is in-bounds.
*/
res = fsverity_read_buffer(buf, offset, length, desc->signature,
diff --git a/fs/verity/signature.c b/fs/verity/signature.c
index b8c51ad40d3a..72034bc71c9d 100644
--- a/fs/verity/signature.c
+++ b/fs/verity/signature.c
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
* Copyright 2019 Google LLC
*/
+/*
+ * This file implements verification of fs-verity builtin signatures. Please
+ * take great care before using this feature. It is not the only way to do
+ * signatures with fs-verity, and the alternatives (such as userspace signature
+ * verification, and IMA appraisal) can be much better. For details about the
+ * limitations of this feature, see Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst.
+ */
+
#include "fsverity_private.h"
#include <linux/cred.h>