[PATCH v3 07/12] ima: Fail rule parsing when appraise_flag=blacklist is unsupportable

Tyler Hicks tyhicks at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Jul 9 06:19:06 UTC 2020


The "appraise_flag" option is only appropriate for appraise actions
and its "blacklist" value is only appropriate when
CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG is enabled and "appraise_flag=blacklist" is
only appropriate when "appraise_type=imasig|modsig" is also present.
Make this clear at policy load so that IMA policy authors don't assume
that other uses of "appraise_flag=blacklist" are supported.

Fixes: 273df864cf74 ("ima: Check against blacklisted hashes for files with modsig")
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna at linux.ibm.com>
---

* v3
  - New patch

 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index 81da02071d41..9842e2e0bc6d 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -1035,6 +1035,11 @@ static bool ima_validate_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	/* Ensure that combinations of flags are compatible with each other */
+	if (entry->flags & IMA_CHECK_BLACKLIST &&
+	    !(entry->flags & IMA_MODSIG_ALLOWED))
+		return false;
+
 	return true;
 }
 
@@ -1371,8 +1376,14 @@ static int ima_parse_rule(char *rule, struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 				result = -EINVAL;
 			break;
 		case Opt_appraise_flag:
+			if (entry->action != APPRAISE) {
+				result = -EINVAL;
+				break;
+			}
+
 			ima_log_string(ab, "appraise_flag", args[0].from);
-			if (strstr(args[0].from, "blacklist"))
+			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG) &&
+			    strstr(args[0].from, "blacklist"))
 				entry->flags |= IMA_CHECK_BLACKLIST;
 			break;
 		case Opt_permit_directio:
-- 
2.25.1



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