[RFC 0/2] ima: evm: Add kernel cmdline options to disable IMA/EVM

[Song Liu]

> On Dec 17, 2024, at 1:59 PM, Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>> On 12/17/2024 12:25 PM, Song Liu wrote:
>>> While reading and testing LSM code, I found IMA/EVM consume per inode
>>> storage even when they are not in use. Add options to diable them in
>>> kernel command line. The logic and syntax is mostly borrowed from an
>>> old serious [1].
>> 
>> Why not omit ima and evm from the lsm= parameter?
> 
> Exactly.  Here is a link to the kernel documentation if anyone is
> interested (search for "lsm"):
> 
> https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
> 
> It is worth mentioning that this works for all the LSMs.

I guess this is a bug that ima and evm do cannot be disabled
by (not being add to) lsm= parameter?

Thanks,
Song


> 
>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1398259638.git.d.kasatkin@samsung.com/
>>> 
>>> Song Liu (2):
>>>  ima: Add kernel parameter to disable IMA
>>>  evm: Add kernel parameter to disable EVM
>>> 
>>> security/integrity/evm/evm.h       |  6 ++++++
>>> security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>>> security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c |  3 ++-
>>> security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c  | 13 +++++++++++++
>>> 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 2.43.5
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