Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH v1 1/3] ima: provide flag to identify new empty files

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 18:12:26 EST


On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 10:00 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 14:46 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> > Newly created empty files do not get initial security.ima
> > value because iversion does not change. It can be checked from
> > the shell as:
> >
> > $ (exec >foo)
> > $ getfattr -h -e hex -d -m security foo

This is a change in behavior. Please include the commit number that
introduced this change in the patch description.

Mimi

> > This patch defines IMA_NEW_FILE flag which is set when IMA detects that new
> > file is created. It is checked upon ima_file_free hook to set initial
> > security.ima value.
>
> Other than rebasing on top of #next, this patch set looks good.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mimi
>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> > security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 7 +++++--
> > security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 12 +++++++-----
> > security/integrity/integrity.h | 1 +
> > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
> > index 9dd18b5..3a4beb3 100644
> > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
> > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
> > @@ -194,8 +194,11 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(int func, struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
> > goto out;
> >
> > cause = "missing-hash";
> > - status =
> > - (inode->i_size == 0) ? INTEGRITY_PASS : INTEGRITY_NOLABEL;
> > + status = INTEGRITY_NOLABEL;
> > + if (inode->i_size == 0) {
> > + iint->flags |= IMA_NEW_FILE;
> > + status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
> > + }
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> > index e51e0d5..5a870e7 100644
> > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> > @@ -124,11 +124,13 @@ static void ima_check_last_writer(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
> > return;
> >
> > mutex_lock(&iint->mutex);
> > - if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1 &&
> > - iint->version != inode->i_version) {
> > - iint->flags &= ~IMA_DONE_MASK;
> > - if (iint->flags & IMA_APPRAISE)
> > - ima_update_xattr(iint, file);
> > + if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1) {
> > + if ((iint->version != inode->i_version) ||
> > + (iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE)) {
> > + iint->flags &= ~(IMA_DONE_MASK | IMA_NEW_FILE);
> > + if (iint->flags & IMA_APPRAISE)
> > + ima_update_xattr(iint, file);
> > + }
> > }
> > mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
> > }
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/integrity.h b/security/integrity/integrity.h
> > index 92c1083..7656d47 100644
> > --- a/security/integrity/integrity.h
> > +++ b/security/integrity/integrity.h
> > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> > #define IMA_ACTION_FLAGS 0xff000000
> > #define IMA_DIGSIG_REQUIRED 0x01000000
> > #define IMA_PERMIT_DIRECTIO 0x02000000
> > +#define IMA_NEW_FILE 0x04000000
> >
> > #define IMA_DO_MASK (IMA_MEASURE | IMA_APPRAISE | IMA_AUDIT | \
> > IMA_APPRAISE_SUBMASK)
>
>
>
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