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From: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org (Matthew Garrett)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 10/10] ima: use existing read file operation method to calculate file hash
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 18:02:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170705170215.GA14148@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499266209.3059.91.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 10:50:09AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> [Cc'ing linux-ima-users]
> 
> On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 16:41 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > NAK - we'll need an explicit method for the integrity code.
> > 
> > And just curious - what filesystem that you care about actually
> > implements ->read instead of ->read_iter?  We shouldn't be doing that
> > for real file systems anymore.
> 
> Right, pseudo filesystems are using ->read. The existing builtin
> measurement policies exclude a number of pseudo filesystems, but not
> efivarfs. ?Unfortunately, we do not know what type of custom policies
> are currently being used.

efi variables contain information that may influence userspace behaviour 
and can also be modified out of band, so I think there's a reasonable 
argument that they should be measured.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-05 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-21 18:18 [PATCH v2 00/10] define new fs integrity_read method Mimi Zohar
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] ima: always measure and audit files in policy Mimi Zohar
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] ima: use fs method to read integrity data Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] ima: define "dont_failsafe" policy action rule Mimi Zohar
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] ima: define "fs_unsafe" builtin policy Mimi Zohar
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] tmpfs: define integrity_read method Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-06 11:55     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] fs: define integrity_read method for ext2, gfs2, f2fs, jfs, ramfs Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] ocfs2: define integrity_read method Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] jffs2: " Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] ubifs: " Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-21 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] ima: use existing read file operation method to calculate file hash Mimi Zohar
2017-06-28 14:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-05 14:50     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-07-05 17:02       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2017-07-05 17:18         ` Christoph Hellwig

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