[PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] ima: Implement ima_inode_hash

[KP Singh]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:35 PM Yonghong Song <yhs at fb.com> wrote:
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> On 11/24/20 7:12 AM, KP Singh wrote:
> > From: KP Singh <kpsingh at google.com>
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> > This is in preparation to add a helper for BPF LSM programs to use
> > IMA hashes when attached to LSM hooks. There are LSM hooks like
> > inode_unlink which do not have a struct file * argument and cannot
> > use the existing ima_file_hash API.
> >
> > An inode based API is, therefore, useful in LSM based detections like an
> > executable trying to delete itself which rely on the inode_unlink LSM
> > hook.
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> > Moreover, the ima_file_hash function does nothing with the struct file
> > pointer apart from calling file_inode on it and converting it to an
> > inode.
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> > Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh at google.com>
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> There is no change for this patch compared to previous version,
> so you can carry my Ack.
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> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs at fb.com>

I am guessing:

*  We need an Ack from Mimi/James.
* As regards to which tree, I guess bpf-next would be better since the
BPF helper and the selftest depends on it