Re: [PATCH v9 15/25] security: Introduce inode_post_create_tmpfile hook

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 04:53:35 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:17:59PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
> the inode_post_create_tmpfile hook.
>
> As temp files can be made persistent, treat new temp files like other new
> files, so that the file hash is calculated and stored in the security
> xattr.
>
> LSMs could also take some action after temp files have been created.
>
> The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
> canceled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/namei.c | 1 +

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>