Re: [PATCH 1/1] ima: fix fallback to use new_sync_read()

[Mimi Zohar]

On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 16:28 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> On 26/06/14 16:20, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> > On 26/06/14 15:49, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 16:27 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> >>> 3.16 commit aad4f8bb42af06371aa0e85bf0cd9d52c0494985
> >>> 'switch simple generic_file_aio_read() users to ->read_iter()'
> >>> replaced ->aio_read with ->read_iter in most of the file systems
> >>> and introduced new_sync_read() as a replacement for do_sync_read().
> >>>
> >>> Most of file systems set '->read' and ima_kernel_read is not affected.
> >>> When ->read is not set, this patch adopts fallback call changes from the
> >>> vfs_read.
> >> So every time there are changes in vfs_read(), we're going to have to
> >> play catch up.  A better solution would be to refactor vfs_read() so
> >> that we could call it.
> >>
> >> Mimi
> > vfs_read was stable for decade.
> > And next will be the same.
> >
> > I followed the same approach we took to have an own version.
> >
> > Refactoring vfs_read is not the best approach as we have set_fs things
> > there.
> >
> > I would prefer to have "kernel_read_nosec" function along with
> > kernel_read/vfs_read, so changes could be
> > made noticeably together..
> 
> Another thing is that we do not increment system counters.
> That is may be not what public "__kernel_read" want to do...

As reference, look at fs/read_write.c: vfs_write() and __kernel_write().

thanks,

Mimi

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