[[email protected]: [PATCH v7 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface]

Forgot to add overlayfs as a receiver, this is overlayfs relevant
patch in the patchset adding fsverity support for XFS [1].

The patchset exposes fsverity_ensure_verity_info() [2] which could be
used instead.

1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/[email protected]/T/#t
2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/[email protected]/T/#m6baa3210a16a2f54ce977353da7532a93f1aef65

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Subject: [PATCH v7 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface
From: Andrey Albershteyn <[email protected]>
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 2026 15:13:35 +0200
To: [email protected], [email protected],
  [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: Andrey Albershteyn <[email protected]>, [email protected],
  [email protected], [email protected],
  [email protected], [email protected]
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

fsverity now exposes fsverity_ensure_verity_info() which could be used
instead of opening file to ensure that fsverity info is loaded and
attached to inode.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <[email protected]>
---
 fs/overlayfs/util.c | 14 +++-----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 2ea769f311c3..8bde5dc31d7d 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/overflow.h>
+#include <linux/fsverity.h>
 #include "overlayfs.h"
 
 /* Get write access to upper mnt - may fail if upper sb was remounted ro */
@@ -1377,18 +1378,9 @@ char *ovl_get_redirect_xattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, const struct path *path, int pa
 int ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(const struct path *datapath)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = d_inode(datapath->dentry);
-	struct file *filp;
 
-	if (!fsverity_active(inode) && IS_VERITY(inode)) {
-		/*
-		 * If this inode was not yet opened, the verity info hasn't been
-		 * loaded yet, so we need to do that here to force it into memory.
-		 */
-		filp = kernel_file_open(datapath, O_RDONLY, current_cred());
-		if (IS_ERR(filp))
-			return PTR_ERR(filp);
-		fput(filp);
-	}
+	if (fsverity_active(inode))
+		fsverity_ensure_verity_info(inode);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.51.2



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- Andrey