Re: [PATCH v9 14/25] security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 04:54:35 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:17:58PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
> the path_post_mknod hook.
>
> IMA-appraisal requires all existing files in policy to have a file
> hash/signature stored in security.ima. An exception is made for empty files
> created by mknod, by tagging them as new files.
>
> LSMs could also take some action after files are created.
>
> The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
> reverted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/namei.c | 5 +++++

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>