Re: [PATCH 1/3] ima: Remove inode lock

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 12:57 PM Roberto Sassu
<roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Move out the mutex in the ima_iint_cache structure to a new structure
> called ima_iint_cache_lock, so that a lock can be taken regardless of
> whether or not inode integrity metadata are stored in the inode.
>
> Introduce ima_inode_security() to simplify accessing the new structure in
> the inode security blob.
>
> Move the mutex initialization and annotation in the new function
> ima_inode_alloc_security() and introduce ima_iint_lock() and
> ima_iint_unlock() to respectively lock and unlock the mutex.
>
> Finally, expand the critical region in process_measurement() guarded by
> iint->mutex up to where the inode was locked, use only one iint lock in
> __ima_inode_hash(), since the mutex is now in the inode security blob, and
> replace the inode_lock()/inode_unlock() calls in ima_check_last_writer().
>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  security/integrity/ima/ima.h      | 26 ++++++++---
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c  |  4 +-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 39 +++++++---------
>  4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

I'm not an IMA expert, but it looks reasonable to me, although
shouldn't this carry a stable CC in the patch metadata?

Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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