[PATCH v9 22/25] evm: Move to LSM infrastructure

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Fri Feb 9 09:48:10 UTC 2024


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:18:06PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> 
> As for IMA, move hardcoded EVM function calls from various places in the
> kernel to the LSM infrastructure, by introducing a new LSM named 'evm'
> (last and always enabled like 'ima'). The order in the Makefile ensures
> that 'evm' hooks are executed after 'ima' ones.
> 
> Make EVM functions as static (except for evm_inode_init_security(), which
> is exported), and register them as hook implementations in init_evm_lsm().
> Also move the inline functions evm_inode_remove_acl(),
> evm_inode_post_remove_acl(), and evm_inode_post_set_acl() from the public
> evm.h header to evm_main.c.
> 
> Unlike before (see commit to move IMA to the LSM infrastructure),
> evm_inode_post_setattr(), evm_inode_post_set_acl(),
> evm_inode_post_remove_acl(), and evm_inode_post_removexattr() are not
> executed for private inodes.
> 
> Finally, add the LSM_ID_EVM case in lsm_list_modules_test.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> ---
>  fs/attr.c                                     |   2 -
>  fs/posix_acl.c                                |   3 -
>  fs/xattr.c                                    |   2 -

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>



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