Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after writes

Stefan Berger
2023-04-06T19:11:56Z

On 4/6/23 14:46, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 17:01 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:36:41AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:

>
> Correct. As long as IMA is also measuring the upper inode then it seems
> like you shouldn't need to do anything special here.

Unfortunately IMA does not notice the changes. With the patch provided in the other email IMA works as expected.

>
> What sort of fs are you using for the upper layer?

jffs2:

/dev/mtdblock4 on /run/initramfs/ro type squashfs (ro,relatime,errors=continue)
/dev/mtdblock5 on /run/initramfs/rw type jffs2 (rw,relatime)
cow on / type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=run/initramfs/ro,upperdir=run/initramfs/rw/cow,workdir=run/initramfs/rw/work)

Regards,
Stefan