From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sashal@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IMA: pre-allocate buffer to hold keyrings string
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 22:36:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1579232181.5125.3.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200117021821.2566-1-nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 18:18 -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
> ima_match_keyring() is called while holding rcu read lock. Since this
> function executes in atomic context, it should not call any function
> that can sleep (such as kstrdup()).
>
> This patch pre-allocates a buffer to hold the keyrings string read from
> the IMA policy and uses that to match the given keyring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
> Fixes: e9085e0ad38a ("IMA: Add support to limit measuring keys")
Thanks! This patch is now queued in next-integrity-testing.
Mimi
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2020-01-17 2:18 [PATCH v2] IMA: pre-allocate buffer to hold keyrings string Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
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