Re: [PATCH v6 14/17] ima: Tie opened SecurityFS files to the IMA namespace it belongs to

[Stefan Berger]

On 12/11/21 06:00, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:47:33PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > Tie IMA's files in SecurityFS to the IMA namespace they belong to so that
> > also file descriptor that were passed or inherited to other user/IMA
> > namespaces will always access the data of the IMA namespace they originally
> > belonged to.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c     | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >   security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c |  4 +-
> >   2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> > index 0e582ceecc7f..a136d14f29ec 100644
> > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> > @@ -35,6 +35,20 @@ static int __init default_canonical_fmt_setup(char *str)
> >   }
> >   __setup("ima_canonical_fmt", default_canonical_fmt_setup);
> >   
> > +static inline struct user_namespace *ima_user_ns_from_file(struct file *filp)
> > +{
> > +	return filp->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_user_ns;
> > +}
> I'd probably rewrite this as:
>
> static inline struct user_namespace *ima_user_ns_from_file(const struct file *filp)
> {
> 	return file_inode(filp)->i_sb->s_user_ns;
> }
>
> as it spares you some pointer chasing and also looks cleaner.

Ok. This patch is being absorbed by all the functions currently using 
get_current_ns() and should access it via the file instead.

   Stefan