diff --git a/core/java/com/android/internal/security/VerityUtils.java b/core/java/com/android/internal/security/VerityUtils.java
index 76f7b2180b34e..cb5820f1ade95 100644
--- a/core/java/com/android/internal/security/VerityUtils.java
+++ b/core/java/com/android/internal/security/VerityUtils.java
@@ -90,8 +90,15 @@ public abstract class VerityUtils {
         return (retval == 1);
     }
 
-    /** Returns hash of a root node for the fs-verity enabled file. */
-    public static byte[] getFsverityRootHash(@NonNull String filePath) {
+    /**
+     * Returns fs-verity digest for the file if enabled, otherwise returns null. The digest is a
+     * hash of root hash of fs-verity's Merkle tree with extra metadata.
+     *
+     * @see <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity.html#file-digest-computation">
+     *      File digest computation in Linux kernel documentation</a>
+     * @return Bytes of fs-verity digest
+     */
+    public static byte[] getFsverityDigest(@NonNull String filePath) {
         byte[] result = new byte[HASH_SIZE_BYTES];
         int retval = measureFsverityNative(filePath, result);
         if (retval < 0) {
diff --git a/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/ApkChecksums.java b/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/ApkChecksums.java
index c2f2b0af997ad..ffe0ca0038177 100644
--- a/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/ApkChecksums.java
+++ b/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/ApkChecksums.java
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ public class ApkChecksums {
         // Skip /product folder.
         // TODO(b/231354111): remove this hack once we are allowed to change SELinux rules.
         if (!containsFile(Environment.getProductDirectory(), filePath)) {
-            byte[] verityHash = VerityUtils.getFsverityRootHash(filePath);
+            byte[] verityHash = VerityUtils.getFsverityDigest(filePath);
             if (verityHash != null) {
                 return new ApkChecksum(split, TYPE_WHOLE_MERKLE_ROOT_4K_SHA256, verityHash);
             }