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

Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com
Tue Oct 18 15:38:19 UTC 2022


On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 17:31 +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> There is a complementary patch series that didn't received review: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210427113732.471066-1-roberto.sassu@huawei.com/

Thanks Mickael, just pushed to Github the patch set you mentioned + IMA
on LSM infrastructure.

That patch set was a prerequisite: allowing multiple stacked LSMs to
provide an xattr at inode creation time.

Roberto

> On 14/10/2022 00:36, Kees Cook 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_use
> > rns, 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!
> > 
> > -Kees
> > 
> > Kees Cook (9):
> >    integrity: Prepare for having "ima" and "evm" available in
> > "integrity"
> >      LSM
> >    security: Move trivial IMA hooks into LSM
> >    ima: Move xattr hooks into LSM
> >    ima: Move ima_file_free() into LSM
> >    LSM: Introduce inode_post_setattr hook
> >    fs: Introduce file_to_perms() helper
> >    ima: Move ima_file_check() into LSM
> >    integrity: Move trivial hooks into LSM
> >    integrity: Move integrity_inode_get() out of global header
> > 
> >   fs/attr.c                             |  3 +-
> >   fs/file_table.c                       |  1 -
> >   fs/namei.c                            |  2 -
> >   fs/nfsd/vfs.c                         |  6 --
> >   include/linux/evm.h                   |  6 --
> >   include/linux/fs.h                    | 22 +++++++
> >   include/linux/ima.h                   | 87 ----------------------
> > -----
> >   include/linux/integrity.h             | 30 +--------
> >   include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h         |  3 +
> >   security/Kconfig                      | 10 +--
> >   security/apparmor/include/file.h      | 18 ++----
> >   security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c     | 14 ++++-
> >   security/integrity/iint.c             | 28 +++++++--
> >   security/integrity/ima/ima.h          | 12 ++++
> >   security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 21 +++++--
> >   security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c     | 66 ++++++++++++++------
> >   security/integrity/integrity.h        |  8 +++
> >   security/security.c                   | 78 ++++++--------------
> > ----
> >   18 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
> > 



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