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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	Dongsu Park <dongsu@kinvolk.io>, Alban Crequy <alban@kinvolk.io>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] ima: fail signature verification on untrusted filesystems
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:03:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519254193.19593.32.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu5uc5ug.fsf@xmission.com>

On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 16:53 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 20:02 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> It would also be nice if I could provide all of this information at
> >> mount time (when I am the global root) with mount options.  So I don't
> >> need to update all of my tooling to know how to update ima policy when I
> >> am mounting a filesystem.
> >
> > The latest version of this patch relies on a builtin IMA policy to set
> > a flag.  No other changes are required to the IMA policy.  This
> > builtin policy could be used for environments not willing to accept
> > the default unverifiable signature risk.
> 
> I still remain puzzled by this.  Why is the default to accept the risk?

Accepting the risk is option 2, the privileged mount scenario.  It
requires re-evaluating the cached info.

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-21 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19 15:18 [PATCH v1 0/2] ima: untrusted filesystems Mimi Zohar
2018-02-19 15:18 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] ima: fail signature verification on " Mimi Zohar
2018-02-19 21:47   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-20  0:52     ` James Morris
2018-02-20  2:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-20 14:02         ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-20 20:16           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-02-21 14:46             ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-21 22:46               ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-21 22:57                 ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-21 23:12                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-21 23:32                     ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-27  2:12                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-21 22:53           ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-21 23:03             ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2018-02-19 22:50   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-19 23:36   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-19 15:18 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] fuse: define the filesystem as untrusted Mimi Zohar

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