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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
index 9884681535ee..e15bc1a0fb98 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Construction Parameters
<data_block_size> <hash_block_size>
<num_data_blocks> <hash_start_block>
<algorithm> <digest> <salt>
+ [<#opt_params> <opt_params>]
<version>
This is the type of the on-disk hash format.
@@ -62,6 +63,22 @@ Construction Parameters
<salt>
The hexadecimal encoding of the salt value.
+<#opt_params>
+ Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters,
+ the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero.
+ Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments.
+
+ Example of optional parameters section:
+ 1 ignore_corruption
+
+ignore_corruption
+ Log corrupted blocks, but allow read operations to proceed normally.
+
+restart_on_corruption
+ Restart the system when a corrupted block is discovered. This option is
+ not compatible with ignore_corruption and requires user space support to
+ avoid restart loops.
+
Theory of operation
===================
@@ -125,7 +142,7 @@ block boundary) are the hash blocks which are stored a depth at a time
The full specification of kernel parameters and on-disk metadata format
is available at the cryptsetup project's wiki page
- http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMVerity
+ https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMVerity
Status
======
@@ -142,7 +159,7 @@ Set up a device:
A command line tool veritysetup is available to compute or verify
the hash tree or activate the kernel device. This is available from
-the cryptsetup upstream repository http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
+the cryptsetup upstream repository https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/
(as a libcryptsetup extension).
Create hash on the device: