Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] Introduce partial kernel_read_file() support

Kees Cook
2020-07-25T15:48:24Z

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:05:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:36:21PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > v3:
> > - add reviews/acks
> > - add "IMA: Add support for file reads without contents" patch
> > - trim CC list, in case that's why vger ignored v2
> > v2: [missing from lkml archives! (CC list too long?) repeating changes here]
> > - fix issues in firmware test suite
> > - add firmware partial read patches
> > - various bug fixes/cleanups
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200717174309.1164575-1-keescook@chromium.org/
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's my tree for adding partial read support in kernel_read_file(),
> > which fixes a number of issues along the way. It's got Scott's firmware
> > and IMA patches ported and everything tests cleanly for me (even with
> > CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE=y).
> >
> > I think the intention is for this to go via Greg's tree since Scott's
> > driver code will depend on it?
>
> I've applied the first 3 now, as I think I need some acks/reviewed-by
> from the subsystem owners of the other patches before I can take them.

Sounds good; thanks!

(I would argue 4 and 5 are also bug fixes, 6 is already Acked by hch and
you, and 7 is a logical follow-up to 6, but I get your point.)

James, Luis, Mimi, and Jessica, the bulk of these patches are LSM,
firmware, IMA, and modules. How does this all look to you? And KP,
you'd mentioned privately that you were interested in being able to
use the new kernel_post_load_data LSM hook for better visibility into
non-file-backed blob loading.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook