From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-ima-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 03:27:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170801102709.GA24285@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170801102036.15371-1-roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:20:36PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> This patch introduces a parser for RPM packages. It extracts the digests
> from the RPMTAG_FILEDIGESTS header section and converts them to binary data
> before adding them to the hash table.
>
> The advantage of this data type is that verifiers can determine who
> produced that data, as headers are signed by Linux distributions vendors.
> RPM headers signatures can be provided as digest list metadata.
Err, parsing arbitrary file formats has no business in the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 15:44 [PATCH 00/12] ima: measure digest lists instead of individual files Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 01/12] ima: generalize ima_read_policy() Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 02/12] ima: generalize ima_write_policy() Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 03/12] ima: generalize policy file operations Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 04/12] ima: use ima_show_htable_value to show hash table data Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 05/12] ima: add functions to manage digest lists Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 06/12] ima: added parser of digest lists metadata Roberto Sassu
2017-07-27 5:15 ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-01 10:17 ` [PATCH, RESEND " Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 07/12] ima: added parser for compact digest list Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type Roberto Sassu
2017-07-27 5:03 ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH, RESEND " Roberto Sassu
2017-08-01 10:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-08-01 10:58 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-08-02 7:22 ` [Linux-ima-devel] " James Morris
2017-08-02 11:22 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-08-09 9:15 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-08-09 14:30 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-08-09 17:18 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-08-10 13:12 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-08-17 9:15 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 09/12] ima: introduce securityfs interfaces for digest lists Roberto Sassu
2017-07-27 5:38 ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 10/12] ima: disable digest lookup if digest lists are not measured Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 11/12] ima: don't report measurements if digests are included in the loaded lists Roberto Sassu
2017-08-09 20:36 ` [Linux-ima-devel] " Ken Goldman
2017-08-17 8:32 ` Roberto Sassu
2017-07-25 15:44 ` [PATCH 12/12] ima: added Documentation/security/IMA-digest-lists.txt Roberto Sassu
2017-07-26 21:54 ` [PATCH 00/12] ima: measure digest lists instead of individual files Mimi Zohar
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