[PATCH 3/9] ima: Move xattr hooks into LSM

[Mimi Zohar]

On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 17:07 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:36:48PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Move the xattr IMA hooks into normal LSM layer. As with SELinux and
> > Smack, handle calling cap_inode_setxattr() internally.
> > 
> > Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> > Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
> > Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
> > Cc: Jonathan McDowell <noodles at fb.com>
> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> > Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel at suse.cz>
> > Cc: linux-integrity at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> > ---
> 
> I like that changes obviously but in general, does IMA depend on being
> called _after_ all other LSMs or is this just a historical artifact?

Calculating the EVM HMAC must be last, after the other security xattrs
have been updated.

-- 
thanks,

Mimi