Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] ima: Implement ima_inode_hash

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 12:35:28 EST




On 11/24/20 7:12 AM, KP Singh wrote:
From: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is in preparation to add a helper for BPF LSM programs to use
IMA hashes when attached to LSM hooks. There are LSM hooks like
inode_unlink which do not have a struct file * argument and cannot
use the existing ima_file_hash API.

An inode based API is, therefore, useful in LSM based detections like an
executable trying to delete itself which rely on the inode_unlink LSM
hook.

Moreover, the ima_file_hash function does nothing with the struct file
pointer apart from calling file_inode on it and converting it to an
inode.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>

There is no change for this patch compared to previous version,
so you can carry my Ack.

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>