From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, zohar@linux.ibm.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
Konsta Karsisto <konsta.karsisto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ima: keep the integrity state of open files up to date
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 14:39:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190909213938.GA105935@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902094540.12786-1-janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:45:38PM +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> When a file is open for writing, kernel crash or power outage
> is guaranteed to corrupt the inode integrity state leading to
> file appraisal failure on the subsequent boot. Add some basic
> infrastructure to keep the integrity measurements up to date
> as the files are written to.
>
> Core file operations (open, close, sync, msync, truncate) are
> now allowed to update the measurement immediately. In order
> to maintain sufficient write performance for writes, add a
> latency tunable delayed work workqueue for computing the
> measurements.
>
This still doesn't make it crash-safe. So why is it okay?
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-09 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-02 9:45 [PATCH 1/3] ima: keep the integrity state of open files up to date Janne Karhunen
2019-09-02 9:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] ima: update the file measurement on truncate Janne Karhunen
2019-09-08 15:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-09-02 9:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] ima: update the file measurement on writes Janne Karhunen
2019-09-08 17:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-09-02 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] ima: keep the integrity state of open files up to date kbuild test robot
2019-09-02 12:57 ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-08 16:35 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-09-09 21:39 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2019-09-10 7:04 ` Janne Karhunen
2019-09-15 20:24 ` Eric Biggers
2019-09-16 11:45 ` Janne Karhunen
2019-09-17 4:23 ` Eric Biggers
2019-09-17 7:24 ` Janne Karhunen
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