[PATCH v2] integrity: silence warning when CONFIG_SECURITYFS is not enabled

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 5 14:49:42 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 11:25 +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> When CONFIG_SECURITYFS is not enabled, securityfs_create_dir returns
> -ENODEV which throws the following error:
> 	"Unable to create integrity sysfs dir: -19"
> 
> However, if the feature is disabled, it can't be warning and hence
> we need to silence the error. This patch checks for the error -ENODEV
> which is returned when CONFIG_SECURITYFS is disabled to stop the error
> being thrown.

Both IMA and EVM require securityfs, at least for the time being.
 Under what circumstances would integrity and not securityfs be
enabled.  Is this a Kconfig issue?

Mimi

> 
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> ---
>  security/integrity/iint.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> v1->v2:
> 	- Check for -ENODEV rather than IS_ENABLED(..) as suggested by
> 	  Matthew Garrett
> 
> diff --git a/security/integrity/iint.c b/security/integrity/iint.c
> index 149faa81f6f0..7051ea4a8161 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/iint.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/iint.c
> @@ -219,10 +219,13 @@ static int __init integrity_fs_init(void)
>  {
>  	integrity_dir = securityfs_create_dir("integrity", NULL);
>  	if (IS_ERR(integrity_dir)) {
> -		pr_err("Unable to create integrity sysfs dir: %ld\n",
> -		       PTR_ERR(integrity_dir));
> +		int ret = PTR_ERR(integrity_dir);
> +
> +		if (ret != -ENODEV)
> +			pr_err("Unable to create integrity sysfs dir: %ld\n",
> +			       ret;
>  		integrity_dir = NULL;
> -		return PTR_ERR(integrity_dir);
> +		return ret;
>  	}
> 
>  	return 0;
> --
> 2.7.4
> 
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