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The FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA ioctl will need to return the fs-verity descriptor (and signature) to userspace. There are a few ways we could implement this: - Save a copy of the descriptor (and signature) in the fsverity_info struct that hangs off of the in-memory inode. However, this would waste memory since most of the time it wouldn't be needed. - Regenerate the descriptor from the merkle_tree_params in the fsverity_info. However, this wouldn't work for the signature, nor for the salt which the merkle_tree_params only contains indirectly as part of the 'hashstate'. It would also be error-prone. - Just get them from the filesystem again. The disadvantage is that in general we can't trust that they haven't been maliciously changed since the file has opened. However, the use cases for FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA don't require that it verifies the chain of trust. So this is okay as long as we do some basic validation. In preparation for implementing the third option, factor out a helper function fsverity_get_descriptor() which gets the descriptor (and appended signature) from the filesystem and does some basic validation. As part of this, start checking the sig_size field for overflow. Currently fsverity_verify_signature() does this. But the new ioctl will need this too, so do it earlier. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115181819.34732-2-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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