[PATCH 0/9] integrity: Move hooks into LSM

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Fri Oct 14 01:16:31 UTC 2022


On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 18:47 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 6:36 PM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's been over 4 years since LSM stack was introduced. The integrity
> > subsystem is long overdue for moving to this infrastructure. Here's my
> > first pass at converting integrity and ima (and some of evm) into LSM
> > hooks. This should be enough of an example to finish evm, and introduce
> > the missing hooks for both. For example, after this, it looks like ima
> > only has a couple places it's still doing things outside of the LSM. At
> > least these stood out:
> >
> > fs/namei.c:     ima_post_create_tmpfile(mnt_userns, inode);
> > fs/namei.c:                             ima_post_path_mknod(mnt_userns, dentry);
> >
> > Mimi, can you please take this series and finish the conversion for
> > what's missing in ima and evm?
> >
> > I would also call attention to "175 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)" --
> > as expected, this is a net reduction in code.
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> Without looking at any of the code, I just want to say this 100% gets
> my vote; this is something we need to make happen at some point.
> 
> Thanks Kees!

Sorry I'm on vacation this week and the beginning of next week, but
will look at it when I get back.

Mimi



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