Re: [PATCH V8 1/3] Define a new IMA hook to measure the boot command line arguments

[James Morris]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, Prakhar Srivastava wrote:

> This patch adds support in ima to measure kexec cmdline args
> during soft reboot(kexec_file_load).
> 
> - A new ima hook ima_kexec_cmdline is defined to be called by the
> kexec code.
> - A new function process_buffer_measurement is defined to measure
> the buffer hash into the ima log.
> - A new func policy KEXEC_CMDLINE is defined to control the
>  measurement.[Suggested by Mimi]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva02@xxxxxxxxx>

> +	struct integrity_iint_cache tmp_iint, *iint = &tmp_iint;
> +	struct ima_event_data event_data = {.iint = iint };

Minor nit: looks like this could be simplified to:

	struct integrity_iint_cache iint = {};
	struct ima_event_data event_data = {.iint = &iint };

which also saves the later memset. 'hash' can also be initialized with '= 
{}'.


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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>