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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dongsu Park <dongsu@kinvolk.io>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alban Crequy <alban@kinvolk.io>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 06:48:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180115144804.GA28856@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1515682581.git.dongsu@kinvolk.io>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:51:48PM +0100, Dongsu Park wrote:
> In case of FUSE filesystem, cached integrity results in IMA could be
> reused, when the userspace FUSE process has changed the
> underlying files. To be able to avoid such cases, we need to turn on
> the force option in builtin policies, for actions of measure and
> appraise. Then integrity values become re-measured and re-appraised.
> In that way, cached integrity results won't be used.

The same is true for any distributed file system.  Checking for magic
numbers is always the wrong thing.  You'll need flags for specific
behavior in struct file_system_type instead.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-15 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-11 19:51 [PATCH 0/2] turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies Dongsu Park
2018-01-11 19:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/fuse: move SUPER_MAGIC definitions to linux/magic.h Dongsu Park
2018-01-11 19:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies Dongsu Park
2018-01-12 15:33   ` Mimi Zohar
2018-01-14 19:09   ` kbuild test robot
2018-01-16 10:47     ` Dongsu Park
2018-01-15 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-01-15 16:32   ` [PATCH 0/2] " Mimi Zohar
2018-01-15 17:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-01-15 21:00       ` Mimi Zohar
2018-01-16 10:41   ` [PATCH] ima,fuse: introduce new fs flag FS_NO_IMA_CACHE Alban Crequy
2018-01-16 11:26     ` Alban Crequy
2018-01-16 11:35       ` Mimi Zohar
2018-01-16 11:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies Dongsu Park
2018-01-16 11:23   ` Mimi Zohar
2018-01-16 14:05     ` Dongsu Park

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