[dm-devel] dm-integrity: integrity protection device-mapper target

Alan Cox alan.cox at intel.com
Mon Jan 21 13:51:57 UTC 2013


> This is not to provide reliability.
> Default is to return error. But zero might be desirable. 

There are cases where being able to force blocks to all zeros is itself
a security attack and it seems an odd behaviour. Error on read/allow
write seems sensible enough.

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