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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Fix 1 untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:07:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100123230735.GW19799@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ad974923eae7a8f52be0786a630b6c64bee9d32.1264018123.git.zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:35:40PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> The "Untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters" patch messed
> up the counters.  Based on conversations with Al Viro, this patch
> streamlines ima_path_check() by removing the counter maintaince.
> The counters are now updated independently, from measuring the file,
> in __dentry_open() and alloc_file() by calling ima_counts_get().
> ima_path_check() is called from nfsd and do_filp_open().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/namei.c                        |    4 +-
>  include/linux/ima.h               |    4 +-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c |  234 ++++++++++++++-----------------------

Um...
	a) where's the nfsd part?
	b) will that work if we open file with O_WRONLY?

nfsd side of things is non-trivial.  Note that you have that thing called
an awful lot; nfsd_permission() is called by fh_verify().  For which
operations do you really want it to happen?  Should it just migrate to
nfsd_open()?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-23 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 20:35 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters Mimi Zohar
2010-01-20 20:35 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Fix 1 " Mimi Zohar
2010-01-23 23:07   ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-01-25 19:24     ` Mimi Zohar
2010-01-25 21:30       ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 13:03       ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 15:16         ` Mimi Zohar
2010-01-26 16:27           ` Al Viro
     [not found]         ` <1264520125.3789.32.camel@dyn9002018117.watson.ibm.com>
     [not found]           ` <20100126163143.GJ19799@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
     [not found]             ` <1264528747.3062.11.camel@dyn9002018117.watson.ibm.com>
2010-01-26 19:41               ` Open Intents, lookup_instantiate_filp() And All That Shit(tm) Al Viro
2010-01-26 22:01         ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Fix 1 untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters Mimi Zohar
2010-01-20 20:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] Fix 2 " Mimi Zohar

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