Patch "ima: accept previously set IMA_NEW_FILE" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ima: accept previously set IMA_NEW_FILE

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ima-accept-previously-set-ima_new_file.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


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From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Gl=C3=B6ckner?= <dg@emlix.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:05:14 +0100
Subject: ima: accept previously set IMA_NEW_FILE
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From: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>

commit 1ac202e978e18f045006d75bd549612620c6ec3a upstream.

Modifying the attributes of a file makes ima_inode_post_setattr reset
the IMA cache flags. So if the file, which has just been created,
is opened a second time before the first file descriptor is closed,
verification fails since the security.ima xattr has not been written
yet. We therefore have to look at the IMA_NEW_FILE even if the file
already existed.

With this patch there should no longer be an error when cat tries to
open testfile:

$ rm -f testfile
$ ( echo test >&3 ; touch testfile ; cat testfile ) 3>testfile

A file being new is no reason to accept that it is missing a digital
signature demanded by the policy.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -204,10 +204,11 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_ho
 
 		cause = "missing-hash";
 		status = INTEGRITY_NOLABEL;
-		if (opened & FILE_CREATED) {
+		if (opened & FILE_CREATED)
 			iint->flags |= IMA_NEW_FILE;
+		if ((iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE) &&
+		    !(iint->flags & IMA_DIGSIG_REQUIRED))
 			status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
-		}
 		goto out;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dg@emlix.com are

queue-4.9/ima-accept-previously-set-ima_new_file.patch