Re: [PATCH v5 13/23] security: Introduce file_pre_free_security hook

[Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>]

On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 23:33 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Nov  7, 2023 Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
> > 
> > In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
> > the file_pre_free_security hook.
> > 
> > IMA calculates at file close the new digest of the file content and writes
> > it to security.ima, so that appraisal at next file access succeeds.
> > 
> > LSMs could also take some action before the last reference of a file is
> > released.
> > 
> > The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
> > reverted.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> > Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/file_table.c               |  1 +
> >  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h |  1 +
> >  include/linux/security.h      |  4 ++++
> >  security/security.c           | 11 +++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
> > index de4a2915bfd4..64ed74555e64 100644
> > --- a/fs/file_table.c
> > +++ b/fs/file_table.c
> > @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file)
> >  	eventpoll_release(file);
> >  	locks_remove_file(file);
> >  
> > +	security_file_pre_free(file);
> 
> I worry that security_file_pre_free() is a misleading name as "free"
> tends to imply memory management tasks, which isn't the main focus of
> this hook.  What do you think of security_file_release() or
> security_file_put() instead?

security_file_release() would be fine for me.

Thanks

Roberto

> >  	ima_file_free(file);
> >  	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & FASYNC)) {
> >  		if (file->f_op->fasync)
> 
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