[PATCH] ima: setting security.ima to fix security.evm for a file with IMA signature
Coiby Xu
coxu at redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 04:19:53 UTC 2025
When both IMA and EVM fix modes are enabled, accessing a file with IMA
signature won't cause security.evm to be fixed. But this doesn't happen
to a file with correct IMA hash already set because accessing it will
cause setting security.ima again which triggers fixing security.evm
thanks to security_inode_post_setxattr->evm_update_evmxattr.
Let's use the same mechanism to fix security.evm for a file with IMA
signature.
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu at redhat.com>
---
security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
index f435eff4667f..18c3907c5e44 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -595,12 +595,27 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func, struct ima_iint_cache *iint,
integrity_audit_msg(audit_msgno, inode, filename,
op, cause, rc, 0);
} else if (status != INTEGRITY_PASS) {
- /* Fix mode, but don't replace file signatures. */
- if ((ima_appraise & IMA_APPRAISE_FIX) && !try_modsig &&
- (!xattr_value ||
- xattr_value->type != EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG)) {
- if (!ima_fix_xattr(dentry, iint))
- status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
+ /*
+ * Fix mode, but don't replace file signatures.
+ *
+ * When EVM fix mode is also enabled, security.evm will be
+ * fixed automatically when security.ima is set because of
+ * security_inode_post_setxattr->evm_update_evmxattr.
+ */
+ if ((ima_appraise & IMA_APPRAISE_FIX) && !try_modsig) {
+ if (!xattr_value ||
+ xattr_value->type != EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG) {
+ if (ima_fix_xattr(dentry, iint))
+ status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
+ } else if (xattr_value->type == EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG &&
+ evm_revalidate_status(XATTR_NAME_IMA)) {
+ if (!__vfs_setxattr_noperm(&nop_mnt_idmap,
+ dentry,
+ XATTR_NAME_IMA,
+ xattr_value,
+ xattr_len, 0))
+ status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
+ }
}
/*
base-commit: b320789d6883cc00ac78ce83bccbfe7ed58afcf0
--
2.51.0
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