From: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, fsverity@lists.linux.dev,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ebiggers@kernel.org
Cc: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>,
hch@lst.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, djwong@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 03/25] fsverity: generate and store zero-block hash
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 20:23:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309192355.176980-4-aalbersh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309192355.176980-1-aalbersh@kernel.org>
Compute the hash of one filesystem block's worth of zeros. A filesystem
implementation can decide to elide merkle tree blocks containing only
this hash and synthesize the contents at read time.
Let's pretend that there's a file containing six data blocks and whose
merkle tree looks roughly like this:
root
+--leaf0
| +--data0
| +--data1
| `--data2
`--leaf1
+--data3
+--data4
`--data5
If data[0-2] are sparse holes, then leaf0 will contain a repeating
sequence of @zero_digest. Therefore, leaf0 need not be written to disk
because its contents can be synthesized.
A subsequent xfs patch will use this to reduce the size of the merkle
tree when dealing with sparse gold master disk images and the like.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
---
fs/verity/fsverity_private.h | 3 +++
fs/verity/open.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
index 6e6854c19078..35636c1e2c41 100644
--- a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
+++ b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ struct merkle_tree_params {
u64 tree_size; /* Merkle tree size in bytes */
unsigned long tree_pages; /* Merkle tree size in pages */
+ /* the hash of a merkle block-sized buffer of zeroes */
+ u8 zero_digest[FS_VERITY_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE];
+
/*
* Starting block index for each tree level, ordered from leaf level (0)
* to root level ('num_levels - 1')
diff --git a/fs/verity/open.c b/fs/verity/open.c
index 0483db672526..94407a37aa08 100644
--- a/fs/verity/open.c
+++ b/fs/verity/open.c
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ int fsverity_init_merkle_tree_params(struct merkle_tree_params *params,
goto out_err;
}
+ fsverity_hash_block(params, page_address(ZERO_PAGE(0)),
+ params->zero_digest);
+
params->tree_size = offset << log_blocksize;
params->tree_pages = PAGE_ALIGN(params->tree_size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
return 0;
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 19:23 [PATCH v4 00/25] fs-verity support for XFS with post EOF merkle tree Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 01/25] fsverity: report validation errors through fserror to fsnotify Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-11 11:47 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 02/25] fsverity: expose ensure_fsverity_info() Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` Andrey Albershteyn [this message]
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 04/25] fsverity: introduce fsverity_folio_zero_hash() Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 05/25] fsverity: pass digest size and hash of the empty block to ->write Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 06/25] fsverity: hoist pagecache_read from f2fs/ext4 to fsverity Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 07/25] iomap: introduce IOMAP_F_FSVERITY and teach writeback to handle fsverity Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 08/25] iomap: obtain fsverity info for read path Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 09/25] iomap: issue readahead for fsverity merkle tree Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 10/25] iomap: teach iomap to handle fsverity holes and verify data holes Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 14:42 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 11/25] iomap: introduce iomap_fsverity_write() for writing fsverity metadata Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 12/25] xfs: introduce fsverity on-disk changes Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 13/25] xfs: initialize fs-verity on file open Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 14/25] xfs: don't allow to enable DAX on fs-verity sealed inode Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 15/25] xfs: disable direct read path for fs-verity files Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 16/25] xfs: handle fsverity I/O in write/read path Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 17/25] xfs: use read ioend for fsverity data verification Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-11 11:40 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 9:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 18/25] xfs: add fs-verity support Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 15:26 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 19/25] xfs: remove unwritten extents after preallocations in fsverity metadata Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-10 1:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-12 13:50 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-12 14:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-13 11:17 ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-13 14:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 20/25] xfs: add fs-verity ioctls Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 21/25] xfs: advertise fs-verity being available on filesystem Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 22/25] xfs: check and repair the verity inode flag state Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 23/25] xfs: introduce health state for corrupted fsverity metadata Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 24/25] xfs: add fsverity traces Andrey Albershteyn
2026-03-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v4 25/25] xfs: enable ro-compat fs-verity flag Andrey Albershteyn
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