[PATCH v4 5/5] evm: Support multiple LSMs providing an xattr

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Nov 17 17:09:44 UTC 2022


On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:46 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> 
> Currently, evm_inode_init_security() processes a single LSM xattr from
> the array passed by security_inode_init_security(), and calculates the
> HMAC on it and other inode metadata.
> 
> Given that initxattrs() callbacks, called by
> security_inode_init_security(), expect that this array is terminated when
> the xattr name is set to NULL, reuse the same assumption to scan all xattrs
> and to calculate the HMAC on all of them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>

Thanks, Roberto.  This looks good.

Mimi



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