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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Writing out EVM protected xattrs while EVM is active
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:08:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508292499.4513.99.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACdnJuvYoKRdtF7+BZK4yp8JmC_pfaXyZhhwHzPC739OR6mhOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 19:02 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Is this accurate? If there's no IMA policy that covers the file in
> question (eg, appraise is limited to a specific security context or
> owner), will IMA_NEW ever be set? It looks like that codepath will
> only be entered if there's a rule that matches. The EVM xattr
> protections appear to be called regardless, which means that there's
> then no way to write out attributes on them at runtime.

Updating/writing security.evm is triggered by writing or updating ANY
file metadata included in the HMAC calculation.  There is no
requirement for security.ima to exist.

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-17 23:12 Writing out EVM protected xattrs while EVM is active Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18  1:49 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-18  2:02   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18  2:08     ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2017-10-18  2:13       ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18  2:53         ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-18 17:27           ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18 17:51             ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-18 18:08               ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18 18:19                 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-18 18:23                   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18 18:38                     ` Mimi Zohar
     [not found]               ` <CACE9dm_vpTi705PJxGZkeNWUyHALZzVc2x=RUw_p=DZCPZfoXw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-18 18:18                 ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-19 11:14                   ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-18 18:19                 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-19 11:00 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-19 17:06   ` Matthew Garrett

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