Re: [patch] Adding Secure Deletion to UBIFS

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Wed Feb 29 2012 - 12:07:08 EST


On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 15:59 +0100, Joel Reardon wrote:
> >
> > Could you make a separate patch which adds new on-flash format and make
> > sure that new ubifs binaries can mount the old formats and work with
> > them. And that old ubifs binaries gracefully reject the new format.
> >
>
> This patch provides a new version of two on-flash data structures for
> UBIFS:

Similarly - wrapped patch and git am wont' apply it, sorry.

> ubifs_branch and ubifs_data_node have been grown by 8 bytes to include a
> 64-bit reference
> to a key position, which is needed by a proposed ubifs secure deletion
> addition. This patch is generated
> against linux-3.2.1.

Please, use linux-ubifs tree instead:
git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs.git

It has the newest stuff.

> Because both data structures use C99 flexible arrays, it is not possible
> to add the new field as
> the last member of the structure.

> Thus, it was added one before last, the
> last was renamed, and in a
> handful of places where it was used, a macro accessor is used to get the
> version-correct position.

Hmm, we can make it to be key[UBIFS_SK_LEN] instead, if it helps.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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