[PATCH 2/2] ima: use the lsm policy update notifier

Janne Karhunen janne.karhunen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 06:58:05 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:35 PM Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> > +                     entry->lsm[i].rule = rule_new;
>
> Doesn't this still leak the old entry->lsm[i].rule?

Argh, clearly got a wrong understanding from different part of the
code. Will fix.


> Also, I don't think you can just mutate entry like this under RCU.

Yeah, it's definitely not the politically correct way of doing it.
Let's rework the entire list then, I will post another draft. It will
become somewhat more intrusive :-(


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Janne



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