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+============
+dm-integrity
+============
+
+The dm-integrity target emulates a block device that has additional
+per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity information.
+
+A general problem with storing integrity tags with every sector is that
+writing the sector and the integrity tag must be atomic - i.e. in case of
+crash, either both sector and integrity tag or none of them is written.
+
+To guarantee write atomicity, the dm-integrity target uses journal, it
+writes sector data and integrity tags into a journal, commits the journal
+and then copies the data and integrity tags to their respective location.
+
+The dm-integrity target can be used with the dm-crypt target - in this
+situation the dm-crypt target creates the integrity data and passes them
+to the dm-integrity target via bio_integrity_payload attached to the bio.
+In this mode, the dm-crypt and dm-integrity targets provide authenticated
+disk encryption - if the attacker modifies the encrypted device, an I/O
+error is returned instead of random data.
+
+The dm-integrity target can also be used as a standalone target, in this
+mode it calculates and verifies the integrity tag internally. In this
+mode, the dm-integrity target can be used to detect silent data
+corruption on the disk or in the I/O path.
+
+There's an alternate mode of operation where dm-integrity uses bitmap
+instead of a journal. If a bit in the bitmap is 1, the corresponding
+region's data and integrity tags are not synchronized - if the machine
+crashes, the unsynchronized regions will be recalculated. The bitmap mode
+is faster than the journal mode, because we don't have to write the data
+twice, but it is also less reliable, because if data corruption happens
+when the machine crashes, it may not be detected.
+
+When loading the target for the first time, the kernel driver will format
+the device. But it will only format the device if the superblock contains
+zeroes. If the superblock is neither valid nor zeroed, the dm-integrity
+target can't be loaded.
+
+To use the target for the first time:
+
+1. overwrite the superblock with zeroes
+2. load the dm-integrity target with one-sector size, the kernel driver
+   will format the device
+3. unload the dm-integrity target
+4. read the "provided_data_sectors" value from the superblock
+5. load the dm-integrity target with the target size
+   "provided_data_sectors"
+6. if you want to use dm-integrity with dm-crypt, load the dm-crypt target
+   with the size "provided_data_sectors"
+
+
+Target arguments:
+
+1. the underlying block device
+
+2. the number of reserved sector at the beginning of the device - the
+   dm-integrity won't read of write these sectors
+
+3. the size of the integrity tag (if "-" is used, the size is taken from
+   the internal-hash algorithm)
+
+4. mode:
+
+	D - direct writes (without journal)
+		in this mode, journaling is
+		not used and data sectors and integrity tags are written
+		separately. In case of crash, it is possible that the data
+		and integrity tag doesn't match.
+	J - journaled writes
+		data and integrity tags are written to the
+		journal and atomicity is guaranteed. In case of crash,
+		either both data and tag or none of them are written. The
+		journaled mode degrades write throughput twice because the
+		data have to be written twice.
+	B - bitmap mode - data and metadata are written without any
+		synchronization, the driver maintains a bitmap of dirty
+		regions where data and metadata don't match. This mode can
+		only be used with internal hash.
+	R - recovery mode - in this mode, journal is not replayed,
+		checksums are not checked and writes to the device are not
+		allowed. This mode is useful for data recovery if the
+		device cannot be activated in any of the other standard
+		modes.
+
+5. the number of additional arguments
+
+Additional arguments:
+
+journal_sectors:number
+	The size of journal, this argument is used only if formatting the
+	device. If the device is already formatted, the value from the
+	superblock is used.
+
+interleave_sectors:number
+	The number of interleaved sectors. This values is rounded down to
+	a power of two. If the device is already formatted, the value from
+	the superblock is used.
+
+meta_device:device
+	Don't interleave the data and metadata on the device. Use a
+	separate device for metadata.
+
+buffer_sectors:number
+	The number of sectors in one buffer. The value is rounded down to
+	a power of two.
+
+	The tag area is accessed using buffers, the buffer size is
+	configurable. The large buffer size means that the I/O size will
+	be larger, but there could be less I/Os issued.
+
+journal_watermark:number
+	The journal watermark in percents. When the size of the journal
+	exceeds this watermark, the thread that flushes the journal will
+	be started.
+
+commit_time:number
+	Commit time in milliseconds. When this time passes, the journal is
+	written. The journal is also written immediatelly if the FLUSH
+	request is received.
+
+internal_hash:algorithm(:key)	(the key is optional)
+	Use internal hash or crc.
+	When this argument is used, the dm-integrity target won't accept
+	integrity tags from the upper target, but it will automatically
+	generate and verify the integrity tags.
+
+	You can use a crc algorithm (such as crc32), then integrity target
+	will protect the data against accidental corruption.
+	You can also use a hmac algorithm (for example
+	"hmac(sha256):0123456789abcdef"), in this mode it will provide
+	cryptographic authentication of the data without encryption.
+
+	When this argument is not used, the integrity tags are accepted
+	from an upper layer target, such as dm-crypt. The upper layer
+	target should check the validity of the integrity tags.
+
+recalculate
+	Recalculate the integrity tags automatically. It is only valid
+	when using internal hash.
+
+journal_crypt:algorithm(:key)	(the key is optional)
+	Encrypt the journal using given algorithm to make sure that the
+	attacker can't read the journal. You can use a block cipher here
+	(such as "cbc(aes)") or a stream cipher (for example "chacha20",
+	"salsa20" or "ctr(aes)").
+
+	The journal contains history of last writes to the block device,
+	an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers
+	that were written. From the sector numbers, the attacker can infer
+	the size of files that were written. To protect against this
+	situation, you can encrypt the journal.
+
+journal_mac:algorithm(:key)	(the key is optional)
+	Protect sector numbers in the journal from accidental or malicious
+	modification. To protect against accidental modification, use a
+	crc algorithm, to protect against malicious modification, use a
+	hmac algorithm with a key.
+
+	This option is not needed when using internal-hash because in this
+	mode, the integrity of journal entries is checked when replaying
+	the journal. Thus, modified sector number would be detected at
+	this stage.
+
+block_size:number
+	The size of a data block in bytes.  The larger the block size the
+	less overhead there is for per-block integrity metadata.
+	Supported values are 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes.  If not
+	specified the default block size is 512 bytes.
+
+sectors_per_bit:number
+	In the bitmap mode, this parameter specifies the number of
+	512-byte sectors that corresponds to one bitmap bit.
+
+bitmap_flush_interval:number
+	The bitmap flush interval in milliseconds. The metadata buffers
+	are synchronized when this interval expires.
+
+allow_discards
+	Allow block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) for the integrity device.
+	Discards are only allowed to devices using internal hash.
+
+fix_padding
+	Use a smaller padding of the tag area that is more
+	space-efficient. If this option is not present, large padding is
+	used - that is for compatibility with older kernels.
+
+legacy_recalculate
+	Allow recalculating of volumes with HMAC keys. This is disabled by
+	default for security reasons - an attacker could modify the volume,
+	set recalc_sector to zero, and the kernel would not detect the
+	modification.
+
+The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time and
+allow_discards can be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive
+table and swap the tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments
+should not be changed when reloading the target because the layout of disk
+data depend on them and the reloaded target would be non-functional.
+
+
+Status line:
+
+1. the number of integrity mismatches
+2. provided data sectors - that is the number of sectors that the user
+   could use
+3. the current recalculating position (or '-' if we didn't recalculate)
+
+
+The layout of the formatted block device:
+
+* reserved sectors
+    (they are not used by this target, they can be used for
+    storing LUKS metadata or for other purpose), the size of the reserved
+    area is specified in the target arguments
+
+* superblock (4kiB)
+	* magic string - identifies that the device was formatted
+	* version
+	* log2(interleave sectors)
+	* integrity tag size
+	* the number of journal sections
+	* provided data sectors - the number of sectors that this target
+	  provides (i.e. the size of the device minus the size of all
+	  metadata and padding). The user of this target should not send
+	  bios that access data beyond the "provided data sectors" limit.
+	* flags
+	    SB_FLAG_HAVE_JOURNAL_MAC
+		- a flag is set if journal_mac is used
+	    SB_FLAG_RECALCULATING
+		- recalculating is in progress
+	    SB_FLAG_DIRTY_BITMAP
+		- journal area contains the bitmap of dirty
+		  blocks
+	* log2(sectors per block)
+	* a position where recalculating finished
+* journal
+	The journal is divided into sections, each section contains:
+
+	* metadata area (4kiB), it contains journal entries
+
+	  - every journal entry contains:
+
+		* logical sector (specifies where the data and tag should
+		  be written)
+		* last 8 bytes of data
+		* integrity tag (the size is specified in the superblock)
+
+	  - every metadata sector ends with
+
+		* mac (8-bytes), all the macs in 8 metadata sectors form a
+		  64-byte value. It is used to store hmac of sector
+		  numbers in the journal section, to protect against a
+		  possibility that the attacker tampers with sector
+		  numbers in the journal.
+		* commit id
+
+	* data area (the size is variable; it depends on how many journal
+	  entries fit into the metadata area)
+
+	    - every sector in the data area contains:
+
+		* data (504 bytes of data, the last 8 bytes are stored in
+		  the journal entry)
+		* commit id
+
+	To test if the whole journal section was written correctly, every
+	512-byte sector of the journal ends with 8-byte commit id. If the
+	commit id matches on all sectors in a journal section, then it is
+	assumed that the section was written correctly. If the commit id
+	doesn't match, the section was written partially and it should not
+	be replayed.
+
+* one or more runs of interleaved tags and data.
+    Each run contains:
+
+	* tag area - it contains integrity tags. There is one tag for each
+	  sector in the data area
+	* data area - it contains data sectors. The number of data sectors
+	  in one run must be a power of two. log2 of this value is stored
+	  in the superblock.