Re: [PATCH 1/3] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:27AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:

> Does this mean I can't replace /bin/sh on a running system using IMA
> at all, even if just one process has it opened and is running?  So how
> the hell am I supposed to do live upgrades on a system?  

rename(2).  Prohibition against write(2) to binary being executed is
*old*.  Try to do the following:
cp /bin/sh /tmp
/tmp/sh &
cat /bin/ls >/tmp/sh
and you'll get
sh: /tmp/sh: Text file busy

That has nothing to do with IMA...
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