[PATCH v5 02/10] IMA: Added keyrings= option in IMA policy to only measure keys added to the specified keyrings.

[Lakshmi Ramasubramanian]

On 11/12/2019 9:05 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> The C maximum line length is 80 characters.  The subject line is even
> less than that (~50).  The Subject line here could be "ima: add
> support to limit measuring keys".
I'll update the subject line for the patches - limit to max 50 chars.

> 
> On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 11:32 -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> IMA policy needs to support measuring only those keys linked to
>> a specific set of keyrings.
> 
> Patch descriptions should be written in the imperative.  For example,
> "Limit measuring keys to those keys being loaded onto a specific
> keyring."
Will update.

> 
>>
>> This patch defines a new IMA policy option namely "keyrings=" that
>> can be used to specify a set of keyrings. If this option is specified
>> in the policy for func=KEYRING_CHECK then only the keys linked to
>> the keyrings given in "keyrings=" option are measured.
> 
> This description does not seem to match the code, which for some
> reason isn't included in this patch, nor in 3/10.  Please
> combine/squash patches 2 & 3.  Missing from the combined patch is the
> keyring matching code in ima_match_rules().

This patch defines "keyrings=" option in the IMA policy and adds the 
related field in ima_rule_entry struct.

The code for updating the new field in ima_rule_entry is in patch #4
[PATCH v5 04/10] IMA: Updated IMA policy functions to return keyrings 
option read from the policy

I'll update the description for this patch (#2).

  -lakshmi