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2020-01-14	fs-verity: use mempool for hash requests	Eric Biggers	1	-11/+6
	When initializing an fs-verity hash algorithm, also initialize a mempool that contains a single preallocated hash request object. Then replace the direct calls to ahash_request_alloc() and ahash_request_free() with allocating and freeing from this mempool. This eliminates the possibility of the allocation failing, which is desirable for the I/O path. This doesn't cause deadlocks because there's no case where multiple hash requests are needed at a time to make forward progress. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231175545.20709-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-01-14	fs-verity: implement readahead of Merkle tree pages	Eric Biggers	1	-6/+28
	When fs-verity verifies data pages, currently it reads each Merkle tree page synchronously using read_mapping_page(). Therefore, when the Merkle tree pages aren't already cached, fs-verity causes an extra 4 KiB I/O request for every 512 KiB of data (assuming that the Merkle tree uses SHA-256 and 4 KiB blocks). This results in more I/O requests and performance loss than is strictly necessary. Therefore, implement readahead of the Merkle tree pages. For simplicity, we take advantage of the fact that the kernel already does readahead of the file's data, just like it does for any other file. Due to this, we don't really need a separate readahead state (struct file_ra_state) just for the Merkle tree, but rather we just need to piggy-back on the existing data readahead requests. We also only really need to bother with the first level of the Merkle tree, since the usual fan-out factor is 128, so normally over 99% of Merkle tree I/O requests are for the first level. Therefore, make fsverity_verify_bio() enable readahead of the first Merkle tree level, for up to 1/4 the number of pages in the bio, when it sees that the REQ_RAHEAD flag is set on the bio. The readahead size is then passed down to ->read_merkle_tree_page() for the filesystem to (optionally) implement if it sees that the requested page is uncached. While we're at it, also make build_merkle_tree_level() set the Merkle tree readahead size, since it's easy to do there. However, for now don't set the readahead size in fsverity_verify_page(), since currently it's only used to verify holes on ext4 and f2fs, and it would need parameters added to know how much to read ahead. This patch significantly improves fs-verity sequential read performance. Some quick benchmarks with 'cat'-ing a 250MB file after dropping caches: On an ARM64 phone (using sha256-ce): Before: 217 MB/s After: 263 MB/s (compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 357 MB/s) In an x86_64 VM (using sha256-avx2): Before: 173 MB/s After: 215 MB/s (compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 223 MB/s) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106205533.137005-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-08-12	fs-verity: support builtin file signatures	Eric Biggers	1	-0/+6
	To meet some users' needs, add optional support for having fs-verity handle a portion of the authentication policy in the kernel. An ".fs-verity" keyring is created to which X.509 certificates can be added; then a sysctl 'fs.verity.require_signatures' can be set to cause the kernel to enforce that all fs-verity files contain a signature of their file measurement by a key in this keyring. See the "Built-in signature verification" section of Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full documentation. Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-07-28	fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()	Eric Biggers	1	-0/+275
	Add functions that verify data pages that have been read from a fs-verity file, against that file's Merkle tree. These will be called from filesystems' ->readpage() and ->readpages() methods. Since data verification can block, a workqueue is provided for these methods to enqueue verification work from their bio completion callback. See the "Verifying data" section of Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for more information. Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>