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Commit 843f38d3 authored by Patrik Torstensson's avatar Patrik Torstensson Committed by Mike Snitzer
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dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once



This allows platforms that are CPU/memory contrained to verify data
blocks only the first time they are read from the data device, rather
than every time.  As such, it provides a reduced level of security
because only offline tampering of the data device's content will be
detected, not online tampering.

Hash blocks are still verified each time they are read from the hash
device, since verification of hash blocks is less performance critical
than data blocks, and a hash block will not be verified any more after
all the data blocks it covers have been verified anyway.

This option introduces a bitset that is used to check if a block has
been validated before or not.  A block can be validated more than once
as there is no thread protection for the bitset.

These changes were developed and tested on entry-level Android Go
devices.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrik Torstensson <totte@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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