Re: [PATCH v9 21/25] ima: Move IMA-Appraisal to LSM infrastructure

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:18:05PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A few additional IMA hooks are needed to reset the cached appraisal
> status, causing the file's integrity to be re-evaluated on next access.
> Register these IMA-appraisal only functions separately from the rest of IMA
> functions, as appraisal is a separate feature not necessarily enabled in
> the kernel configuration.
> 
> Reuse the same approach as for other IMA functions, move hardcoded calls
> from various places in the kernel to the LSM infrastructure. Declare the
> functions as static and register them as hook implementations in
> init_ima_appraise_lsm(), called by init_ima_lsm().
> 
> Also move the inline function ima_inode_remove_acl() from the public ima.h
> header to ima_appraise.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/attr.c                             |  2 -
>  include/linux/ima.h                   | 55 ---------------------------
>  security/integrity/ima/ima.h          |  5 +++
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 38 +++++++++++++-----
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c     |  1 +
>  security/security.c                   | 13 -------
>  6 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
> index 221d2bb0a906..38841f3ebbcb 100644
> --- a/fs/attr.c
> +++ b/fs/attr.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
>  #include <linux/filelock.h>
>  #include <linux/security.h>
>  #include <linux/evm.h>
> -#include <linux/ima.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> @@ -503,7 +502,6 @@ int notify_change(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
>  	if (!error) {
>  		fsnotify_change(dentry, ia_valid);
>  		security_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
> -		ima_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
>  		evm_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
>  	}

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>