[RESEND][PATCH] ima: Set and clear FMODE_CAN_READ in ima_calc_file_hash()
Linus Torvalds
torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Mon Nov 16 17:37:32 UTC 2020
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 8:47 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This discussion seems to be going down the path of requiring an IMA
> filesystem hook for reading the file, again. That solution was
> rejected, not by me. What is new this time?
You can't read a non-read-opened file. Not even IMA can.
So don't do that then.
IMA is doing something wrong. Why would you ever read a file that can't be read?
Fix whatever "open" function instead of trying to work around the fact
that you opened it wrong.
Linus
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