Re: [PATCH v5 13/21] evm: add evm_inode_post_init call in gfs2

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:45 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> After creating the initial LSM security extended attribute, call
> evm_inode_post_init_security() to create the 'security.evm'
> extended attribute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/gfs2/inode.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
[snip]
> +	struct xattr lsm_xattr;
> +	struct xattr evm_xattr;
>  
>  	err = security_inode_init_security(&ip->i_inode, &dip->i_inode, qstr,
> -					   &name, &value, &len);
> +					   &lsm_xattr.name, &lsm_xattr.value,
> +					   &lsm_xattr.value_len);
>  
>  	if (err) {
>  		if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> @@ -780,11 +781,20 @@ static int gfs2_security_init(struct gfs2_inode *dip, struct gfs2_inode *ip,
>  		return err;
>  	}
>  
> -	err = __gfs2_xattr_set(&ip->i_inode, name, value, len, 0,
> -			       GFS2_EATYPE_SECURITY);
> -	kfree(value);
> -	kfree(name);
> -
> +	err = __gfs2_xattr_set(&ip->i_inode, lsm_xattr.name, lsm_xattr.value,
> +			       lsm_xattr.value_len, 0, GFS2_EATYPE_SECURITY);
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		goto out;
> +	err = evm_inode_post_init_security(&ip->i_inode, &lsm_xattr,
> +					   &evm_xattr);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out;
> +	err = __gfs2_xattr_set(&ip->i_inode, evm_xattr.name, evm_xattr.value,
> +			       evm_xattr.value_len, 0, GFS2_EATYPE_SECURITY);
> +	kfree(evm_xattr.value);
> +out:
> +	kfree(lsm_xattr.name);
> +	kfree(lsm_xattr.value);
>  	return err;
>  }
>  

Just wondering whether we could have a single call to the security
subsystem which returns a vector of xattrs rather than having to call
two different functions?

Steve.


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