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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-12 03:50:42 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-12 03:50:42 +0000
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Merging upstream version 256.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/veritytab.xml b/man/veritytab.xml
index bc9aa58..6bd0960 100644
--- a/man/veritytab.xml
+++ b/man/veritytab.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<!--
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -41,19 +41,19 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
verity protected block device. Fields are delimited by
white space.</para>
- <para>Each line is in the form<programlisting><replaceable>volume-name</replaceable> <replaceable>data-device</replaceable> <replaceable>hash-device</replaceable> <replaceable>roothash</replaceable> <replaceable>options</replaceable></programlisting>
+ <para>Each line is in the form<programlisting><replaceable>volume-name</replaceable> <replaceable>data-device</replaceable> <replaceable>hash-device</replaceable> <replaceable>roothash</replaceable> <optional><replaceable>options</replaceable></optional></programlisting>
The first four fields are mandatory, the remaining one is optional.</para>
<para>The first field contains the name of the resulting verity volume; its block device is set up
below <filename>/dev/mapper/</filename>.</para>
<para>The second field contains a path to the underlying block data device, or a specification of a block device via
- <literal>UUID=</literal> followed by the UUID.</para>
+ <varname>UUID=</varname> followed by the <replaceable>UUID</replaceable>.</para>
<para>The third field contains a path to the underlying block hash device, or a specification of a block device via
- <literal>UUID=</literal> followed by the UUID.</para>
+ <varname>UUID=</varname> followed by the <replaceable>UUID</replaceable>.</para>
- <para>The fourth field is the <literal>roothash</literal> in hexadecimal.</para>
+ <para>The fourth field is the <replaceable>roothash</replaceable> in hexadecimal.</para>
<para>The fifth field, if present, is a comma-delimited list of options. The following options are
recognized:</para>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<varlistentry>
<term><option>format=<replaceable>NUMBER</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Specifies the hash version type. Format type 0 is original Chrome OS version. Format type 1 is
+ <listitem><para>Specifies the hash version type. Format type <literal>0</literal> is original Chrome OS version. Format type <literal>1</literal> is
modern version.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<term><option>salt=<replaceable>HEX</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Salt used for format or verification. Format is a hexadecimal string; 256 bytes long maximum;
- <literal>-</literal>is the special value for empty.</para>
+ <literal>-</literal> is the special value for empty.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -125,11 +125,10 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<varlistentry>
<term><option>uuid=<replaceable>UUID</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Use the provided UUID for format command instead of generating new one. The UUID must be
- provided in standard UUID format, e.g. 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc.</para>
+ <listitem><para>Use the provided <replaceable>UUID</replaceable> instead of generating new one. The <replaceable>UUID</replaceable> must be
+ provided in standard <acronym>UUID</acronym> format, e.g. <literal>12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc</literal>.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
- <listitem><para></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -138,9 +137,9 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<term><option>panic-on-corruption</option></term>
<listitem><para>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 <literal>--ignore-corruption</literal> option the
- corruption is only logged. With <literal>--restart-on-corruption</literal> or
- <literal>--panic-on-corruption</literal> the kernel is restarted (panicked) immediately.
+ options kernel fails the <acronym>IO</acronym> operation with <acronym>I/O</acronym> error. With <option>--ignore-corruption</option> option the
+ corruption is only logged. With <option>--restart-on-corruption</option> or
+ <option>--panic-on-corruption</option> the kernel is restarted (panicked) immediately.
(You have to provide way how to avoid restart loops.)</para>
@@ -151,10 +150,11 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<term><option>ignore-zero-blocks</option></term>
<listitem><para>Instruct kernel to not verify blocks that are expected to contain zeroes and always directly
- return zeroes instead.
+ return zeroes instead.</para>
- WARNING: Use this option only in very specific cases. This option is available since Linux kernel version 4.5.
- </para>
+ <warning>
+ <para>Use this option only in very specific cases. This option is available since Linux kernel version 4.5.</para>
+ </warning>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v248"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -163,11 +163,12 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<term><option>check-at-most-once</option></term>
<listitem><para>Instruct kernel to verify blocks only the first time they are read from the data device, rather
- than every time.
+ than every time.</para>
- 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.
- </para>
+ <warning>
+ <para>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.</para>
+ </warning>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v248"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -184,9 +185,9 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<varlistentry>
<term><option>fec-device=<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>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. For format,
- if fec device path doesn't exist, it will be created as file. Note: block sizes for data and hash devices must
+ <listitem><para>Use forward error correction (<acronym>FEC</acronym>) 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 doesn't 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.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ This is based on crypttab(5).
<varlistentry>
<term><option>fec-offset=<replaceable>BYTES</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>This is the offset, in bytes, from the start of the FEC device to the beginning of the encoding
+ <listitem><para>This is the offset, in bytes, from the start of the <acronym>FEC</acronym> device to the beginning of the encoding
data. (Aligned on 512 bytes.)</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
@@ -313,13 +314,13 @@ data /etc/data /etc/hash a5ee4b42f70ae1f46a08a7c92c2e0a20672ad2f514792730f5d49d7
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-veritysetup@.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-veritysetup-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>veritysetup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- </para>
+ <para><simplelist type="inline">
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-veritysetup@.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-veritysetup-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>veritysetup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ </simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>