Re: [PATCH -next] security/audit/ima: fix build error

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 13:31:21 EST


Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:54 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:30:24 -0500 Mimi Zohar wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/10/2009 05:40:50 PM:
>>>
>>>> Hi Randy,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:55:12 -0800 Randy Dunlap
>>> <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>>>> Dropped trees (temporarily):
>>>>>> audit (difficult conflicts)
>>>>> Maybe this is fixed by the dropped audit tree?
>>>> The audit tree is Al Viro's (cc'd). But I *think* everything in it has
>>>> been applied upstream.
>>>>
>>>>> linux-next-20090210/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:111: error:
>>> implicit
>>>> declaration of function 'security_audit_rule_match'
>>>>> linux-next-20090210/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:230: error:
>>> implicit
>>>> declaration of function 'security_audit_rule_init'
>>>>> when
>>>>> CONFIG_SECURITY=y
>>>>> CONFIG_AUDIT=n
>>>>> CONFIG_IMA=y
>>>>> CONFIG_IMA_AUDIT=y
>>>> This looks more like a security subsystem than audit to me?
>>> These are the IMA Kconfig rules:
>>> CONFIG_IMA=y
>>> CONFIG_IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX=10
>>> CONFIG_IMA_AUDIT=y
>>> CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES=y
>>>
>>> CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES requires the audit subsystem. The default
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> measurement policy is not defined terms of the LSM extended
>>> attributes, and thus is not required.
>>
>> This config still fails to build in linux-next-20090212. And the ^^^
>> statement above may be correct, but it's not enforced in Kconfig, so let's
>> do that, OK?
>
> The patch looks good to me, but looking at the code,
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=blob_plain;f=mm/shmem.c;hb=168b70b72a78f289046823d810c29376e211a6de
> it doesn't look like the previous patch was applied.

Which previous patch? The one for ima & SHMEM=n?
Yes, that build combination still fails also.

James...?


>> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> IMA_LSM_RULES requires AUDIT. This is automatic if SECURITY_SELINUX=y
>> but not when SECURITY_SMACK=y (and SECURITY_SELINUX=n), so make the
>> dependency explicit. This fixes the following build error:
>>
>> security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:111:error: implicit declaration of function 'security_audit_rule_match'
>> security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:230:error: implicit declaration of function 'security_audit_rule_init'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> ---
>> security/integrity/ima/Kconfig | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- linux-next-20090212.orig/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
>> +++ linux-next-20090212/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ config IMA_AUDIT
>>
>> config IMA_LSM_RULES
>> bool
>> - depends on IMA && (SECURITY_SELINUX || SECURITY_SMACK)
>> + depends on IMA && AUDIT && (SECURITY_SELINUX || SECURITY_SMACK)
>> default y
>> help
>> - Disabling this option will disregard LSM based policy rules
>> + Disabling this option will disregard LSM based policy rules.


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~Randy
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