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fs-verity: rename "file measurement" to "file digest"
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:19:17 +0000 (13:19 -0800)
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:40:12 +0000 (11:40 -0800)
commited45e201649344412445d6f65f0473a6112f0bcd
tree1b02c6858128bca82ccab549a8fa4a71a3e5899e
parent9e90f30e78572ecfc1c74c735a034c955d822ba6
fs-verity: rename "file measurement" to "file digest"

I originally chose the name "file measurement" to refer to the fs-verity
file digest to avoid confusion with traditional full-file digests or
with the bare root hash of the Merkle tree.

But the name "file measurement" hasn't caught on, and usually people are
calling it something else, usually the "file digest".  E.g. see
"struct fsverity_digest" and "struct fsverity_formatted_digest", the
libfsverity_compute_digest() and libfsverity_sign_digest() functions in
libfsverity, and the "fsverity digest" command.

Having multiple names for the same thing is always confusing.

So to hopefully avoid confusion in the future, rename
"fs-verity file measurement" to "fs-verity file digest".

This leaves FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY as the only reference to "measure" in
the kernel, which makes some amount of sense since the ioctl is actively
"measuring" the file.

I'll be renaming this in fsverity-utils too (though similarly the
'fsverity measure' command, which is a wrapper for
FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY, will stay).

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113211918.71883-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
fs/verity/enable.c
fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
fs/verity/measure.c
fs/verity/open.c
fs/verity/signature.c