[PATCH v8 20/24] ima: Move IMA-Appraisal to LSM infrastructure

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Dec 26 22:15:18 UTC 2023


On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:08 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>

A few additional IMA hooks are needed to reset the cached appraisal
status, causing the file's integrity to be re-evaluated on next access.
Register these IMA-appraisal only functions separately ...

Mimi

> Do the registration of IMA-Appraisal only functions separately from the
> rest of IMA functions, as appraisal is a separate feature not necessarily
> enabled in the kernel configuration.
> 
> Reuse the same approach as for other IMA functions, move hardcoded calls
> from various places in the kernel to the LSM infrastructure. Declare the
> functions as static and register them as hook implementations in
> init_ima_appraise_lsm(), called by init_ima_lsm().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>




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