[PATCH] security/ima: use fs method to read integrity data

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Mon Jun 5 00:23:05 UTC 2017


On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:59:51AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > > Add a new ->integrity_read file operation to read data for
> > > integrity hash collection.  This is defined to be equivalent
> > > to ->read_iter, except that it will be called with the i_rwsem
> > > held exclusively.  Also the presence of ->integrity_read indicates
> > > that the file system can support IMA.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> > 
> > Fixes an IMA+XFS deadlock I've been seeing.
> 
> Are you going to pick this up?  Any feedback from the folks on the
> LSM list on what additional file systems need to be wired up?

That would normally come in via Mimi's tree, but I will pick it up if it 
doesn't.


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>

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