VERITYTAB(5) veritytab VERITYTAB(5)
NAME
veritytab - Configuration for verity block devices
SYNOPSIS
/etc/veritytab
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/veritytab file describes verity protected block devices that
are set up during system boot.
Empty lines and lines starting with the "#" character are ignored. Each
of the remaining lines describes one verity protected block device.
Fields are delimited by white space.
Each line is in the form
volume-name data-device hash-device roothash [options]
The first four fields are mandatory, the remaining one is optional.
The first field contains the name of the resulting verity volume; its
block device is set up below /dev/mapper/.
The second field contains a path to the underlying block data device, or
a specification of a block device via UUID= followed by the UUID.
The third field contains a path to the underlying block hash device, or
a specification of a block device via UUID= followed by the UUID.
The fourth field is the roothash in hexadecimal.
The fifth field, if present, is a comma-delimited list of options. The
following options are recognized:
superblock=BOOL
Use dm-verity with or without permanent on-disk superblock.
Added in version 254.
format=NUMBER
Specifies the hash version type. Format type "0" is original Chrome
OS version. Format type "1" is modern version.
Added in version 254.
data-block-size=BYTES
Used block size for the data device. (Note kernel supports only
page-size as maximum here; Multiples of 512 bytes.)
Added in version 254.
hash-block-size=BYTES
Used block size for the hash device. (Note kernel supports only
page-size as maximum here; Multiples of 512 bytes.)
Added in version 254.
data-blocks=BLOCKS
Number of blocks of data device used in verification. If not
specified, the whole device is used.
Added in version 254.
hash-offset=BYTES
Offset of hash area/superblock on "hash-device". (Multiples of 512
bytes.)
Added in version 254.
salt=HEX
Salt used for format or verification. Format is a hexadecimal
string; 256 bytes long maximum; "-" is the special value for empty.
Added in version 254.
uuid=UUID
Use the provided UUID instead of generating new one. The UUID must
be provided in standard UUID format, e.g.
"12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc".
Added in version 254.
ignore-corruption, restart-on-corruption, panic-on-corruption
Defines what to do if a data verity problem is detected (data
corruption). Without these options kernel fails the IO operation
with I/O error. With --ignore-corruption option the corruption is
only logged. With --restart-on-corruption or --panic-on-corruption
the kernel is restarted (panicked) immediately. (You have to provide
way how to avoid restart loops.)
Added in version 248.
ignore-zero-blocks
Instruct kernel to not verify blocks that are expected to contain
zeroes and always directly return zeroes instead.
Warning
Use this option only in very specific cases. This option is
available since Linux kernel version 4.5.
Added in version 248.
check-at-most-once
Instruct kernel to verify blocks only the first time they are read
from the data device, rather than every time.
Warning
It provides a reduced level of security because only offline
tampering of the data device's content will be detected, not
online tampering. This option is available since Linux kernel
version 4.17.
Added in version 248.
hash=HASH
Hash algorithm for dm-verity. This should be the name of the
algorithm, like "sha1". For default see veritysetup --help.
Added in version 254.
fec-device=PATH
Use forward error correction (FEC) to recover from corruption if
hash verification fails. Use encoding data from the specified
device. The fec device argument can be block device or file image.
If fec device path does not exist, it will be created as file. Note:
block sizes for data and hash devices must match. Also, if the
verity data_device is encrypted the fec_device should be too.
Added in version 254.
fec-offset=BYTES
This is the offset, in bytes, from the start of the FEC device to
the beginning of the encoding data. (Aligned on 512 bytes.)
Added in version 254.
fec-roots=NUM
Number of generator roots. This equals to the number of parity bytes
in the encoding data. In RS(M, N) encoding, the number of roots is
M-N. M is 255 and M-N is between 2 and 24 (including).
Added in version 254.
root-hash-signature=PATH|base64:HEX
A base64 string encoding the root hash signature prefixed by
"base64:" or a path to roothash signature file used to verify the
root hash (in kernel). This feature requires Linux kernel version
5.4 or more recent.
Added in version 248.
_netdev
Marks this veritysetup device as requiring network. It will be
started after the network is available, similarly to
systemd.mount(5) units marked with _netdev. The service unit to set
up this device will be ordered between remote-fs-pre.target and
remote-veritysetup.target, instead of veritysetup-pre.target and
veritysetup.target.
Hint: if this device is used for a mount point that is specified in
fstab(5), the _netdev option should also be used for the mount
point. Otherwise, a dependency loop might be created where the mount
point will be pulled in by local-fs.target, while the service to
configure the network is usually only started after the local file
system has been mounted.
Added in version 248.
noauto
This device will not be added to veritysetup.target. This means that
it will not be automatically enabled on boot, unless something else
pulls it in. In particular, if the device is used for a mount point,
it'll be enabled automatically during boot, unless the mount point
itself is also disabled with noauto.
Added in version 248.
nofail
This device will not be a hard dependency of veritysetup.target.
It'll still be pulled in and started, but the system will not wait
for the device to show up and be enabled, and boot will not fail if
this is unsuccessful. Note that other units that depend on the
enabled device may still fail. In particular, if the device is used
for a mount point, the mount point itself also needs to have the
nofail option, or the boot will fail if the device is not enabled
successfully.
Added in version 248.
x-initrd.attach
Setup this verity protected block device in the initrd, similarly to
systemd.mount(5) units marked with x-initrd.mount.
Although it is not necessary to mark the mount entry for the root
file system with x-initrd.mount, x-initrd.attach is still
recommended with the verity protected block device containing the
root file system as otherwise systemd will attempt to detach the
device during the regular system shutdown while it is still in use.
With this option the device will still be detached but later after
the root file system is unmounted.
All other verity protected block devices that contain file systems
mounted in the initrd should use this option.
Added in version 248.
At early boot and when the system manager configuration is reloaded,
this file is translated into native systemd units by systemd-
veritysetup-generator(8).
EXAMPLES
Example 1. /etc/veritytab example
Set up two verity protected block devices. One using device blocks,
another using files.
usr PARTUUID=783e45ae-7aa3-484a-beef-a80ff9c19cbb PARTUUID=21dc1dfe-4c33-8b48-98a9-918a22eb3e37 36e3f740ad502e2c25e2a23d9c7c17bf0fdad2300b7580842d4b7ec1fb0fa263 auto
data /etc/data /etc/hash a5ee4b42f70ae1f46a08a7c92c2e0a20672ad2f514792730f5d49d7606ab8fdf auto
SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-veritysetup@.service(8), systemd-veritysetup-
generator(8), fstab(5), veritysetup(8)
systemd 257.9 VERITYTAB(5)
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